yourn

or your'n

[ yoorn, yawrn, yohrn ]

pronoun

, Nonstandard.

1. yours.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yourn¹

1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to your + -n, as in mine ¹

Example Sentences

“There’s something worth spending in that there book, dear boy. It’s yourn. All I’ve got ain’t mine; it’s yourn. Don’t you be afeerd on it. There’s more where that come from. I’ve come to the old country fur to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman. That’ll be my pleasure. My pleasure ’ull be fur to see him do it.

From Literature

“Which I do assure you, Pip,” he would often say, in explanation of that liberty; “I found her a tapping the spare bed, like a cask of beer, and drawing off the feathers in a bucket, for sale. Which she would have tapped yourn next, and draw’d it off with you a laying on it, and was then a carrying away the coals gradiwally in the soup-tureen and wegetable-dishes, and the wine and spirits in your Wellington boots.”

From Literature

Look at these here lodgings of yourn, fit for a lord!

From Literature

And when I says to Compeyson, ‘Once out of this court, I’ll smash that face of yourn!’ ain’t it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be protected, and gets two turnkeys stood betwixt us?

From Literature

“They shall be yourn, dear boy, if money can buy ’em.

From Literature