woon
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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
Because I know he woon like it, I know, if he fine that you know he’s been bawing money to me.
From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington
Now t' tray—an' a clane cloth—t' woon wi' laace on 't.
From The Three Sisters by Sinclair, May
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 Leland, Charles Godfrey
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