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our'n

our'n is the alternative form of ourn.

Meaning of ourn

Pronoun

ourn

  1. (Appalachia, especially, obsolete outside UK and US dialects) Ours.
    • ‘You see,’ continued he, ‘my wife wanted a new bar-skin petticoat, and Sal, that gal of our’n, kept pesterin me ’bout some bar’s ile to slick her har with, (as the fellers didn’t like to see her mommock her head with taller,) so as how I couldn’t rest.’1849 November 10, The Spirit of the Times, New York, page 542, column 3

Origin of our'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of ourn as a shortening of our one or our own.

Questions about our'n

What is our'n the alternative form of?
Our'n is the alternative form of ourn.

Words near our'n in the dictionary

  1. Our Lady of the Seven Dolors
  2. Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows
  3. Our Lady's bedstraw
  4. our lass
  5. Our Lord's candle
  6. our'n
  7. our's
  8. Oura
  9. Ourada
  10. Ouradas
  11. ourali

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Adapted from Wiktionary: our'n (page history and authors); ourn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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