your'n

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See also: yourn

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps due to reanalysis of yourn as a shortening of your one or your own.

Pronoun[edit]

your'n

  1. Alternative form of yourn
    • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 271–272:
      Tom, I wouldn’t ever got into all this trouble if it hadn’t ‘a’ been for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your’n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes—not many times, becuz I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git—and you go and beg off for me with the widder.