theirn
Americanpronoun
Etymology
Origin of theirn
their + -n, as in mine, thine
Example Sentences
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The Crooked Rivers and Capers have had their flag up these three weeks," said Lunette; "and I heard how the Artichokes had h'isted theirn yesterday.
From Vesty of the Basins by Greene, Sarah P. McLean
Strikes me it’s our lives or theirn; but you knows best.
From Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by Fenn, George Manville
Why the masters that larf at the pore fules of men that air takin bred hout of their famlies mouths and hout of hour mouths too, to put it hinto theirn.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
No, mournin’ weeds are right in their place, and orange blossoms in theirn, but I never believed in mixin’ the two.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
They'd got pestered with that ol' loom o' theirn.
From Strangers and Wayfarers by Jewett, Sarah Orne
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