'n

1. nonstandardNonstandard spelling of 'n'.

   rock 'n roll

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   fish 'n chips

   “Might think we was brother 'n sister, to hear ye, Ma! Damn me to glory, don't ye know thar's fust cousins marryin' every week? And no harm come of it.” […] “Oh, son, not in the face of Pa 'n me that love you, whatever you think! We're only tryin' to figger for your own good.”

   1927, Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, in Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, section III, pages 50–51

1. abbreviationcontractionContraction of than.

   lock this room up tighter 'n a peanut butter jar at a squirrel convention

   2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville

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   The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

   1865, Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

   She says you may laugh 'f you feel so inclined, but there ain't no such big difference between your leg 'n' a dead rat but what it 'll pay you to mark her words. She says 'f it don't do no more 'n eat the skin off it 'll still be pretty hard for you to lay there without no skin 'n' feel the plaster goin' in more 'n' more.

   1969, Anne Warner, Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop, page 87

   What I can give ya is this bit o' knowledge: there be things in this world that no one can explain. There are things bigger 'n mountains, bigger 'n oceans, bigger 'n fields an' night skies filled with stars, bigger 'n kings, or queens…

   2010, Arnan Heyden, Daughters of Agendale, page 228

1. abbreviationarchaiccontractionContraction of when, as found in if'n.

plural 'ns

1. alternativecolloquialAlternative form of 'un (“one, a thing”).

   Which really did turn into a headache when I woke up — a bad'n.

   2012, Liza Cody, Musclebound, page 15

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   The other said, "Alright, I'm gonna do it like this: you take this'n, I'll take that'n; you take this'n, I'll take that'n; […]

   2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales, page 104

1. abbreviationarchaiccontractionContraction of in, as found in where'n.