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
Say! them eyes of hern come nigh pullin’ me plumb outen that winda!
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
I uster help my mammy ter liff hern.
From Overshadowed A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
The next mornin’ while Miss Meechim and Dorothy wuz to the lawyers, tendin’ to that bizness of hern and gittin’ ready for their long tower, Robert Strong took me through one of them palaces.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
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