Definitions
Etymologies
- From English dialectal hisn, from his + -n, formed on the model of mine, thine. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ah, I see -- an old homestead; and that portrait in my room is the wife of 'hisn'?”
“Page 96 answered, "but Hannah don't like many folks; an 'if Si wuz not a-stuffin' hisself, an 'hisn's po' daddy a-bein 'laid out, hed sesso.”
“Well, we'll get him; don't you worry; an 'that ornery female o' hisn ', too! ”
“His left glove ain't a foot from my jaw, an 'my left glove ain't a foot from hisn.”
“If he weakened, she'd just put her immortal soul into hisn an 'make him live.”
“They think a almighty heap of each other, an 'she's got a will like hisn.”
“The quip about hisn "front-runner" status was also spectacularly ill-judged and was predictably squashed by Campbell.”
“Seed near free poun on un a spell ago a said war hisn.”
“He can beat yourn with hisn and he can beat hisn with yourn.”
“I hope that lily-flower o 'hisn will be open in the mornin'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hisn’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Barbarisms
"An offense against purity of style or language; originally, the mixing of foreign words and phrases in Latin or Greek; hence, the use of words or forms not made according to the accepted usages of...
hisn, hern, gooses, goodest, pled, proven, most of what bilb..., Barbara Bush, unbarred barbs, black sheep, uncut, frizzly barbs, barbarisms and 16 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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