or arra, (vulgar).—A corruption of ‘e’er, a,’ or ‘ever a.’
1750. FIELDING, Tom Jones, V. viii. I don’t believe … ARROW a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money. Ibid., viii. ii. I warrants me there is NARROW a one of all those officer fellows but looks upon himself to be as good as ARROW a squire of £500 a year.
1771. SMOLLETT, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, i. 126. I now carries my head higher than ARROW private gentlewoman of Vales.
