Meanings
pronoun
- alternativeAlternative form of yourn.
1 more example
Tom, I wouldn’t ever got into all this trouble if it hadn’t ‘a’ been for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your’n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes—not many times, becuz I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git—and you go and beg off for me with the widder.
1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 271–272
Origin
Perhaps due to reanalysis of yourn as a shortening of your one or your own.
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APA
your'n. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/your'n
MLA
“your'n.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/your'n. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “your'n,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/your'n.
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