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fam'ly

a. (eye dialect of family English) n. (eye dialect of family English)

Usage examples of "fam'ly".

You can't feed your fam'ly on twenty cents an hour, but you'll take anything.

Fella can't feed his fam'ly on his work now, an' it's gettin' worse all the time.

Allus wished I'd 'ad family uv me own, on'y they's nuthin' but hoors wi' mere army, and wut wimmin 'ud hev a fam'ly wi' me now?

Risin' in the bar he spoke as follers, there bein over 20 individooals present: "This North American has been a inmate of my 'ouse over two weeks, yit he hasn't made no attempt to scalp any member of my fam'ly.

Rhoades was a good Freewill Baptist boy, an' what time he didn't spend in church or with 'is fam'ly 'e spent at work.