woon

American  

[woon] / wun /

noun

• woons
  plural

1. (in Myanmar) an administrative officer.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• woons
  plural

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Example Sentences

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woon woons

Or Chinese celery with its bitter pang; drippings from steamed chicken; and pickled garlic with its brine, all tossed in yum woon sen, a cool, summery heap of mung-bean noodles.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2016

Recommended Dishes Khao yum gai zaap; gai yang; tom yum; larb gai; larb neua; nam tok; yum woon sen.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2016

Thus an Alabaman's drawn-out "you all" becomes "yawl" in the more rapid South Georgian speech, and "Ah wouldn't" becomes "Ah woon."

From Time Magazine Archive

And if Culpepper woon some glory In turning the Dispensatory From Latin into English; then Why should not all good English men Give him much thanks who shews a cure For all diseases men endure?

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Ce qui vien de la fluste s'en retourne au son du tambour, Il woon soon spent; goods lightly gotten lightly slipes away.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall

Vhere he kits his vine horse, or who gafe him dem woons,     Und how Brovidence plessed him mit tea-pods und shpoons?

From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland

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