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theirn
a midl., south., and U.S. dial. form for theirs, on the analogy of ourn, yourn, hisn, hern. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.
1836T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. x. 50 When other folks lost theirn from the boys, hisn always hung there like bait to a hook. 1896‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Sept. 532/1, I hain't ever seen eyes bug out..the way theirn did. 1930Amer. Speech V. 267 Such possessive forms as ourn, yourn, hisn, hern and theirn are almost universal in the Ozarks. |