yourn
Americanpronoun
Etymology
Origin of yourn
1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to your + -n, as in mine 1
Example Sentences
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“It aint hurt none of you and yourn, is it. Versh working and Frony married off your hands and T. P. getting big enough to take your place when rheumatism finish getting you.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“They shall be yourn, dear boy, if money can buy ’em.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
"You said it, man; he a relative of yourn?"
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
“I pray to sweet baby Jesus that bad marksmanship ain’t something that run in the Bobo family. If you’s as cockeyed a shot as your ma was, my goose is cooked. And yourn too.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
We looked through the papers for advertisements and we thought it was most likely he was yourn.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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