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
Them pink cheeks of hern got pinker’n ever, and when she loped off, she smiled back at me!
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
Some relative o' hern from somewheres, like enough—reckon she must 'a' been goin' down to the train to meet him.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
It don’t mean such a blamed lot, neither, if his picture is stuck ’longside of hern on top of the organ.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
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