hern

¹ American  

[hurn] / hɜrn /

noun

Dialect.

1. heron.

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hern ² American  

[hurn, hur-uhn] / hɜrn, ˈhɜr ən /

Or her'n

pronoun

Nonstandard.

1. hers.

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hern British  

/ hɜːn /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for heron

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Etymology

Origin of hern

Middle English hiren; by association with my, mine, thy, thine, etc.

Example Sentences

Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern."

From Time Magazine Archive

The class struggle went on even in the haunts of coot and hern, and what was worse, very few of the local coots seemed to care.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I never approved of her actions, and I wished as I stood there by that piller of hern that I could gin her a real good talkin’ to.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

“This hern is silver; that’s the next thing to gold,” and the bright nickel of the Waterbury twinkled in the spring sunshine as though trying to measure up to its admirers’ estimate.

From The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Mullins, Isla May

But, just the same, whenever I seen him put his haid clost to hern, it shore got under my skin.

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor