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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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
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
I never did git the hang of them eyes of hern.
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
And I wondered as I looked dreamily at that writin’ of hern, if she wuz sorry for her actions now in that spear of hern, wherever it wuz, and wanted to ondo it.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
You see there was some sort o' reason for that there laziness of hern.
From The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson Rankin
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