hern
1 Americannoun
pronoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hern
Middle English hiren; by association with my, mine, thy, thine, etc.
Example Sentences
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The class struggle went on even in the haunts of coot and hern, and what was worse, very few of the local coots seemed to care.
From Time Magazine Archive
Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern."
From Time Magazine Archive
But I never approved of her actions, and I wished as I stood there by that piller of hern that I could gin her a real good talkin’ to.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
"I don't care fer no lot myself an' I'm goin' to hold this lot next to hern fer the little kids."
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
But, just the same, whenever I seen him put his haid clost to hern, it shore got under my skin.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
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