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
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
The Murray woman ’d just finished one of them songs of hern, and the Judge was talkin’ again.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
They go fur ahead of the old mair’s, and hern are made of thick leather.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
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