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hern

1

[ hurn ]

noun

, Dialect.


hern

2
or her'n

[ hurn, hur-uhn ]

pronoun

, Nonstandard.

hern

/ hɜːn /

noun

  1. an archaic or dialect word for heron
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hern1

Middle English hiren; by association with my, mine, thy, thine, etc.
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Example Sentences

Dr. Hern has had people shoot through his office door and threaten the life of his very elderly mother.

In vulgar parlance this book is not your own or our own, but "yourn" or "ourn," or it may be "hisn" or "hern."

But, just the same, whenever I seen him put his haid clost to hern, it shore got under my skin.

She pulled her hoss down to a standstill; and them long eye-winkers of hern lifted straight up into the air, she was so surprised.

When the hern or bitron flies low, the air is gross, and thickening into showers.

The thirteenth name upon that list of dead was the name of Bernadine, Count von Hern.

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