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

Your brown hair is hern, and your gray eyes; you feature her too.

From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Robbins, Mrs. S. S.

I uster help my mammy ter liff hern.

From Overshadowed A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)

The next mornin’ while Miss Meechim and Dorothy wuz to the lawyers, tendin’ to that bizness of hern and gittin’ ready for their long tower, Robert Strong took me through one of them palaces.

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