Portheare

From Middle English Porter, from porter.

• IPA^(key): /pɔːˈtiː/

Portheare

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Porter
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Vear'd nodhing mot Portheare. Na skeine e'er ee-waare.

     I feared nothing but Porter. No skein I ever wore.

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:

     A plaauge apan Portheare! Hea'de luther me waal,

     A plague upon Porter, he'd hide me well,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106