Meanings
- archaicdialectalpluralplural of house
Hide you in your housen! Hang above your Portals The shielding quicken bough!
1917, Edward Harry William Meyerstein, Wilfrid Blair, Black and White Magic - Page 604 more examples
In the forenoon it rained, and in the afternoon I looked round the housen to see the damage they did the town.
1775, Simeon Lyman of Sharon, journal, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 7, page 117'If the housen weren't good housen I'd have nothing to say to them,' said Ingram
1874, “Eight per Cent”, in The Headington Magazine, volume 6, page 7I weant on for a gudish way till at last I loast sight o' the great square building behind the housen.
1880, James Spilling, Molly Miggs's trip to the seaside, page 14“Ho, rooks!” shouted Gideon. “Father's dead, and I be maister, and I've come to say as you shall keep your housen in peace, and I'll keep ye safe from all but my own gun, and you're kindly welcome to bide."
1929, Mary Webb, Precious Bane
Origin
- Middle Englishhousen
- Englishhousen
From Middle English housen, husen, equivalent to house + -en.
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housen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housen
“housen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housen. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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