ourn

or our'n

[ ouuhrn, ou-ernor, often, ahrn ]

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pronoun

, Nonstandard.

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Origin of ourn¹

1350–1400; Middle English (South and Midlands) ouren, ourn, equivalent to oure our + -n (by analogy with my, mine; thy, thine )

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In vulgar parlance this book is not your own or our own, but "yourn" or "ourn," or it may be "hisn" or "hern."

You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history.

But, Huck, dese kings o' ourn is reglar rapscallions; dat's jist what dey is; dey's reglar rapscallions.

But what he wanted was to spread the glad tidings of good health all over this fair land of ourn, he says.

Yu knowed ole Bob Sal, dat ar ole fafeful mousin cat of ourn?

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