Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal (Scotch) form of
maund .
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- verb To
open themouth widely and take a long, rather deepbreath , immediately after waking up or when recovering from sleep. - noun The action of mawning;
opening themouth widely and taking a long, rather deepbreath , because one is waking up. - noun Scotland, dialect A
maund ; a basket or hamper. - noun A ghost.
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Examples
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They often scruple to approach a corpse, saying that the 'mawn' will seize them and that it fastens upon them in the night when asleep.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Watkin Tench 1796
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Ai haz nawt herd teh werd honyock since mai mawn wood cawl us that elebenty elebenty yeers ago!
A peenk panthur - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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September 27, 2009 at 10:14 am dat dey do….aifink ai will get a hawt chawklitt…et weel calm mai nerves frum waitin foar mai nawt-brudder to deliver…she is in lawts of pain rite nao, or at least dats whut mai mawn says at last update.
I chase bad fing awai – you kin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I tryse to be nyce to de critters but dey jest doan lyke me fer taykin der mawn fer muh wyfe.
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A mawm is a mawm is a mawn, beez it kitteh, hooman, doggeh, wutevr…
MOM! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.
The Woodlanders 2006
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None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.
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Streets and squares a 'grass-grown, sae that they micht be mawn!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various
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W'y, dey done move out dis mawn, right f'um dis ve'y house you stan'in in front de gate of.
In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907
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De gyahd he say dat Dago willin 'pay fifty cents a day fo' me to teck an 'bring a message eve'y mawn' tell de quahumteem took off de cellar.
In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907
bilby commented on the word mawn
Wait, so this is like at the other end of the day from yawn? A wake up yawn not an I'm-ready-to-sleep yawn?
August 10, 2021