yourn

American  

[yoorn, yawrn, yohrn] / yʊərn, yɔrn, yoʊrn /

Or your'n

pronoun

Nonstandard.

1. yours.

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Etymology

Origin of yourn

1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to your + -n, as in mine ¹

Example Sentences

Look at these here lodgings of yourn, fit for a lord!

From Literature

“They shall be yourn, dear boy, if money can buy ’em.

From Literature

“There’s something worth spending in that there book, dear boy. It’s yourn. All I’ve got ain’t mine; it’s yourn. Don’t you be afeerd on it. There’s more where that come from. I’ve come to the old country fur to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman. That’ll be my pleasure. My pleasure ’ull be fur to see him do it.

From Literature

“Which I do assure you, Pip,” he would often say, in explanation of that liberty; “I found her a tapping the spare bed, like a cask of beer, and drawing off the feathers in a bucket, for sale. Which she would have tapped yourn next, and draw’d it off with you a laying on it, and was then a carrying away the coals gradiwally in the soup-tureen and wegetable-dishes, and the wine and spirits in your Wellington boots.”

From Literature

I don’t care how much you want to get rid of the remembering, you might as well not fight it, you might as well jus’ go ’head and make yourself a holster, ’cause that memory is yourn and you gonna be toting it ’round for the rest of your life.

From Literature