Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yours.
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- pronoun
yours .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's manufactured by the J. and T. Arms Company; yourn is manufactured by the J. and T. Arms Company.
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I reckon that thar satchel o 'yourn's got the wuth o' my bill in it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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'Them floodgates o' yourn'll be middlin 'far down the brook by now; an' your rose-garden have gone after 'em.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Tek dishyer cunjah-bag o 'yourn' fo 'I gwine drap hit.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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I count 'tis very nigh as bad as the treadmills, serving a young miss such as yourn be.
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
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"Them stockin's o 'yourn' ll be the death o 'Santa Claus!" he shouts after them, as they dodge.
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I'd see you hanged fust, said I; I wouldn't touch that are dead tacky hand o 'yourn' for half a million o 'hard dollars, cash down without any ragged eends; and with that, I turned to run out, but Lord love you I couldn't run.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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I'd see you hanged fust, said I; I wouldn't touch that are dead tacky hand o 'yourn' for half a million o 'hard dollars, cash down without any ragged eends; and with that, I turned to run out, but Lord love you I couldn't run.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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o 'yourn' z been tryin 't' ketch a fellah 'n a slippernoose,' n 'got ketched himself, -- that's all.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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o 'yourn' z been tryin 't' ketch a fellah 'n a slippernoose,' n 'got ketched himself, -- that's all.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
arby commented on the word yourn
"Regional Patterns of American Speech: The American Frontier":
Through the passage of time, the frontier contributions of Northern European folk speech — especially British, Irish, Scots, and Swedish — have lost much of their identity because their speakers were soon united in a common culture. But from these sources of early frontier speech probably came the pronouns hit (for it), hisn, ourn, theirn, and yourn, the inflected verb forms clumb, drug, holp, and riz, the auxiliary construction mought could (or might could), and a large number of folk pronunciations and lexical items, forms transmitted through the oral tradition of the common people... Many of these forms go back to Middle English, and all survive in current American Midland and Southern dialects.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/5b.html
October 4, 2007