better'n
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[edit]better'n
- better than
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 183:
- You’ve been mighty good to me, boys—better’n anybody else in this town.