Oftener

Word OFTENER
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Definitions and meanings of "Oftener"

What do we mean by oftener?

Frequently, many times.

This is not the most mispronounced word in the English language as someone defined it. According to Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, the word "often" can be pronounced with the "t" (like off-ten) or without the "t" (oh-ffen). Many speakers use both the form without t and the form with it. Preference polls. Br. no t 73%, with t 27%. American English, no t 78%, with 22 %. (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary). Urban Dictionary

This is one of the most mispronounced words in the English Language. It should rhyme with "coffin". It isn't "off-ten". Urban Dictionary

A frequent basis. Urban Dictionary

Means that something happens quite often. Urban Dictionary

The frequency of an occurrence; how often something occurs or happens. Sometimes wrongly used as "oftenness". Urban Dictionary

Early and often is my preferred masturbation schedule. Urban Dictionary

Early and often is my preferred masturbation schedule. Urban Dictionary

If you do something once too often it means that you have repeated an action which is bad, stupid or dangerous with an unpleasant end result. So you end up looking a complete wanker, in A & E with serious injuries or someone is totally pissed off with you to an extent which is going to be detrimental to your health and wellbeing. Urban Dictionary

Aside from being the most cliched pick-up line, this phrased is used can be used in other social situations. 1. What you say when you are in a group conversation and everyone randomly stops talking. 2. What you say when you first arrive somewhere after your friends have been there longer. Urban Dictionary

The Hickish or White Trash way of saying periodically. Urban Dictionary

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The word "oftener" in example sentences

She used a term oftener heard in the purlieus of criminal courts. ❋ Unknown (1903)

How much oftener is one pricked by a rose than burned by a nettle! ❋ Unknown (1915)

I think I heard his name oftener mentioned at home than any one's. ❋ Bj��rnstjerne Bj��rnson (1871)

From the way they are built, but oftener from the way they are kept, and from no intelligent inspection whatever being exercised over them, they are almost invariably dens of foul air, and the "servants 'health" suffers in an "unaccountable" (?) way, even in the country. ❋ Unknown (1860)

If visible objects are thought necessary to suggest the mention of his name oftener that it would otherwise occur to the mind, they should be such as to improve the taste, as well as awaken the patriotism of the beholder. ❋ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1830)

And in every part of the British Empire there are soldier lads who look upon this ex-sergeant-major of the Army Service Corps as their spiritual father, and there is no name oftener on their lips in South Africa than his. ❋ W. E. Sellers (N/A)

He gave as his excuse for not calling oftener the enormous pressure of work which the crisis of the invasion of Pennsylvania had brought to his office. ❋ Thomas Dixon (1905)

I wish it were the fashion to call oftener on outbreaking sinners to pray in church. ❋ Corra Harris (1902)

"It is said they wish you would call oftener, Monsieur Caird." ❋ Unknown (1901)

I'm sending flowers and notes and doing the best I can; but it won't do at all: I must call oftener -- must! ❋ Herbert Quick (1893)

They called oftener and oftener at the house of their neighbors who owned the plantations near them, and always received something; but as time went on the plantations themselves were stripped; the little things they could take with them when they went, such as eggs, honey, etc., were wanting, and to go too often without anything to give might make them seem like beggars, and that they were not. ❋ Thomas Nelson Page (1887)

Whenever I wished to call oftener than once a-day at North Villa, I had but to tell Mr. Mannion, and the next morning I found the permission immediately accorded to me by the ruling power. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

Ollamh ( "the Wise") established the Convention of Tara, which assembled habitually every ninth year, but might be called oftener; it met about the October festival in honour of Beleus or _Crom_; Eocaid invented or introduced a new species of wicker boats, called _cassa_, and spent much of his time upon the sea; ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)

I stated his case with great good-humor to the upper master, who was one of the best tempered men in the world; and it was agreed between us, that Richard should be called oftener and worked more severely. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

First of all, I could not venture until she had seen more of me; and how to enjoy more of her society while her mother was so unfriendly, both from instinctive dislike to me, and because of the offence I had given her more than once, I did not know; for I feared that to call oftener might only occasion measures upon her part to prevent me from seeing her daughter at all; and I could not tell how far such measures might expedite the event I most dreaded, or add to the discomfort to which Miss Oldcastle was already so much exposed. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

He had been calling oftener than usual of late, but he didn’t seem to have much to say, and so his coming gave no especial pleasure. ❋ Elizabeth Strong Worthington (N/A)

Defect of substantial reasons must be compensated somehow; and no compensation for it is more obvious, or is oftener called into play, than an air of impatient contempt towards those who disrelish ipsedixitism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The superintendent did not accomplish much because since his arrival the Indians had been “pleased and displeased oftener than they ought to have been,” Washington groused.32 ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

A: How often do you [check] [pronunciation] dictionaries? B: Not very often. A: You should do it [oftener]. ❋ Sil86 (2013)

Person A: How off-ten do you read? Person B: Apparently you read too much, since it is "often", not "off-ten"! Person B: (writes "listen" on [a piece] of paper) How to you [pronounce] this word? A: Listen. it has a [silent T]. B: Then why do you pronounce it in "often"? ❋ Urine Corporation (2013)

Until I was 4 months away from my 7th birthday, I often couldn’t strip of my [boxer] [brief] [undies]! ❋ Turo Fernandez (2020)

For example: If someone likes fine [mousse] then the person wants to [eat it] [oftener] (more often) ❋ FineSemolina (2019)

The [oftenity] in which I [brush my teeth] is insane; I'm surprised i even have any [enamel] left ❋ Pope Londs (2013)

[I like] [to masturbate] early and often! ❋ Eda-skip (2022)

[I like] to [whack off] early and often! ❋ Eda-skip (2022)

He’s [pissed them off] [once too often], they’re going to put the fucker on [crutches]. ❋ AKACroatalin (2016)

Ryan: [HAHAHAHAHA] [Aaren]: [hahahahaha].. Alan: hahaha.......... ....Scott: So.. you come here often? ❋ Ryan=pro (2005)

We [went] to visit them every so often. ❋ Wolga (2006)

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