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byen

/ˈbjɛn/

byen noun: bone.

Noun

byen (plural byens)

  1. (Geordie) bone
    • Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect, →ISBN, page 303

Forms of byen

pluralbyens

Origin of byen

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

Words that rhyme with byen

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Questions about byen

What does byen mean?
Byen means bone.
What part of speech is byen?
Byen is a noun.
How do you pronounce byen?
Byen is pronounced /ˈbjɛn/.
What is the plural of byen?
The plural of byen is byens.

Words near byen in the dictionary

  1. Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  2. Byelorussian SSR
  3. Byelorussians
  4. byemby
  5. byembye
  6. byen
  7. byens
  8. byepath
  9. byepaths
  10. Byer
  11. Byerazino

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