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hern - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun harn .noun heron .noun hernan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Zoöl.) A heron; esp., the common European heron.
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noun Corner .noun heron .pronoun archaic, dialectal, England, US hers ; her own .
Etymologies
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From Middle English herne , hyrne , from Old English hyrne ("corner"), from Proto-Germanic *hurnjō, *hurnjōn (“projecting point, corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱera(w)-, *ḱrū- (“horn”). More at hirn .
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Dialectal variant of en .
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From English dialectal hern , from her + -n , adjective formative. Compare hisn .
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Examples
And I do hold that they almost vertical sides o 'hern 'll make mun ever so much finer a sea boat.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
Hern-hern a-hern. moar general lee goonz sed hern 4
Ninja - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
March 16, 2008 at 11:23 am hmmmm. becaem a hern in Bamalama.
Ninja - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern ,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern ,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern ,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern ,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
He also gives a reference to an article in the December 1937 edition of Sout hern Folklore Quarterly: Chapman
Delia (5) 2000
Addressing a media conference in Cape Town, he said early results showed his party had obtained 75 percent of the proportio its 18 wards, and had taken the hern sub-structure by 500 votes.
ANC Daily News Briefing 1996
"I done it like hern ," she began, and stopped suddenly to look up at him.
Lodusky 1995
madmouth commented on the word hern
var. of "heron"
April 28, 2009