Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hers.
- noun A corner.
- noun An obsolete form of
harn . - noun Same as
heron . - noun The pilchard. Also
hernan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A heron; esp., the common European heron.
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- noun
Corner . - noun
heron . - pronoun archaic, dialectal, England, US
hers ;her own .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I do hold that they almost vertical sides o 'hern'll make mun ever so much finer a sea boat.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
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Hern-herna-hern. moar general lee goonz sed hern 4
Ninja - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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March 16, 2008 at 11:23 am hmmmm. becaem a hern in Bamalama.
Ninja - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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It begins, “I come from haunts of coot and hern,/I make a sudden sally,/And sparkle out among the fern,/To bicker down a valley.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He also gives a reference to an article in the December 1937 edition of Sout hern Folklore Quarterly: Chapman
Delia (5) 2000
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Addressing a media conference in Cape Town, he said early results showed his party had obtained 75 percent of the proportio its 18 wards, and had taken the hern sub-structure by 500 votes.
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"I done it like hern," she began, and stopped suddenly to look up at him.
Lodusky 1995
madmouth commented on the word hern
var. of "heron"
April 28, 2009