vulgar corruption of e’er a, ever a.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, V. viii. (D.). ‘I don’t believe there is arrow a servant in the house.’
1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl., I. 126 (D.). ‘I now carries my head higher than arrow private gentlewoman of Vales.’
Arrow, north. form of ARGH a. Obs. cowardly.
