me

   A form of ‘my’ used in sub-standard or dialectal speech. Kate and Emma, by Monica Dickens, has ‘me old cock’; Dover One, by Joyce Porter, has ‘me old beauty’ and ‘me old dear’; An Error of Judgement, by Pamela Hansford Johnson, has ‘me duck’; A Kind of Loving, by Stan Barstow, has ‘me boy’ and ‘me old sweat’; The Limits of Love, by Frederic Raphael, has ‘me boy’. Brothers in Law, by Henry Cecil, has many examples of the professional affectation ‘me Lud’, used by barristers in a British courtroom.

   See also my.