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- UKnot comparablepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of down.
At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front.
1920, Fritz August Voigt, Combed Out1 more example
He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em.
1904, David Christie Murray, VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
- UKpronunciation spellingBermudaPronunciation spelling of down.
He's cool. Does triathlons dahn de Sahn.
2013 September 5, James Burton, The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 20221 more example
“So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs? Dunno abaht that. People in these parts is used to throwing one another dahn stairs for free.
2007, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Faceless Fiend: The Faceless Fiend: Being the Tale of a Criminal Mastermind, His Masked Minions and a Princess with a Butter Knife, Involving Explosives and a Certain Amount of Pushing and Shoving, Book 2
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dahn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dahn
“dahn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dahn. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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