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hern

¹ American

[hurn] / hɜrn /

noun

Dialect.

heron.

hern ² American

[hurn, hur-uhn] / hɜrn, ˈhɜr ən /

Or her'n

pronoun

Nonstandard.

hers.

hern British

/ hɜːn /

noun

an archaic or dialect word for heron

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of hern

Middle English hiren; by association with my, mine, thy, thine, etc.

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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

"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 Cyrus Townsend Brady

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

I never did git the hang of them eyes of hern.

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

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