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
“Some says ’twas his fault and some says ’twas hern.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Endicott, Ruth Belmore
You see there was some sort o' reason for that there laziness of hern.
From The Cinder Pond by Rankin, Carroll Watson
Then she giv me one of them piercin' glances of hern, and I shivered.
From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various
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