Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
his in its predicate use.
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- pronoun archaic, dialectal, England, US
his .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Ah, I see -- an old homestead; and that portrait in my room is the wife of 'hisn'?"
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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Page 96 answered, "but Hannah don't like many folks; an 'if Si wuz not a-stuffin' hisself, an 'hisn's po' daddy a-bein 'laid out, hed sesso."
The Durket Sperret, 1898
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Well, we'll get him; don't you worry; an 'that ornery female o' hisn ', too! "
The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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His left glove ain't a foot from my jaw, an 'my left glove ain't a foot from hisn.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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If he weakened, she'd just put her immortal soul into hisn an 'make him live.
THE END OF THE STORY 2010
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They think a almighty heap of each other, an 'she's got a will like hisn.
THE END OF THE STORY 2010
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The quip about hisn "front-runner" status was also spectacularly ill-judged and was predictably squashed by Campbell.
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Seed near free poun on un a spell ago a said war hisn.
Ulysses 2003
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He can beat yourn with hisn and he can beat hisn with yourn.
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne 1990
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I hope that lily-flower o 'hisn will be open in the mornin'.
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various
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