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hissen

hissen pronoun: himself.

Pronoun

hissen

  1. (dialectal) Himself.
    • It 'ud be a sight better if he kept they to hissen.1902, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L
    • It rade ower my father t' week afore he henged hissen—Aw mind him t—tellin' on 't.1893-1937, J. Keighley Snowden, "A Ghost Slayer", in A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror

Questions about hissen

What does hissen mean?
Hissen means himself.
What part of speech is hissen?
Hissen is a pronoun.

Words near hissen in the dictionary

  1. hiss-and-tell
  2. hissable
  3. Hissarlik
  4. hissed
  5. hisself
  6. hissen
  7. hisser
  8. hissers
  9. hisses
  10. hisseth
  11. Hissian

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