Meanings
conjunction
- USdialectalunless
I don't 'low to let him lay in no jail-house, unlessen he's got a right ter be thar. What's he charged with?
1913, Charles Neville Buck, The Call of the Cumberlands
Origin
Perhaps from unless and. Compare if'n.
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APA
unlessen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlessen
MLA
“unlessen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlessen. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unlessen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlessen.
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