noun

• Used as an informal title before a man's name.

  ‘Brer Jean’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Brer Rabbit’
  • ‘I would curl up in an armchair and listen to stories about Brer Rabbit, fairies, elves and much more.’
  • ‘He has even compared the defeat to Brer Fox, in the old folktale of the American South.’
  • ‘His choice of a rabbit's foot hints at his affinity with Brer Rabbit and his African trickster antecedents.’
  • ‘Brer Rabbit is constantly at odds with the likes of Brer Bear, Brer Wolf, and Sly Brer Fox.’
  • ‘Ole Brer Ralph, he was out there hibernating after Invisible Man.’