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hisn

or his'n

[ hiz-uhn ]

pronoun

, Nonstandard.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hisn1

1350–1400; Middle English hysene; hern 2

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Example Sentences

In vulgar parlance this book is not your own or our own, but "yourn" or "ourn," or it may be "hisn" or "hern."

When I shifted my position, he turned the other way quick, and coughed–that pore little gone-in cough of hisn.

Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.

Call in young Parson Hooper and make him force them adherents of hisn to give it up.

And "how Lem Wheeler, while out hunting that roan steer o' hisn, had heard a moanin' an' a wailin' under the bluff."

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