hisn

or his'n

[ hiz-uhn ]

pronoun

, Nonstandard.

1. his ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of hisn¹

1350–1400; Middle English hysene; hern ²

Example Sentences

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

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When I shifted my position, he turned the other way quick, and coughed–that pore little gone-in cough of hisn.

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Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.

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Call in young Parson Hooper and make him force them adherents of hisn to give it up.

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And "how Lem Wheeler, while out hunting that roan steer o' hisn, had heard a moanin' an' a wailin' under the bluff."

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