wurn
English
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[edit]wurn
- (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of weren
- 1840, John Colson, The Lancashire Dialect, or the Adventures and Misfortunes of a Lancashire Clown […] [1], London: Orlando Hodgson, page 4:
- M. Ith' neme of Katty whot wurn tey for?
- 1881, Benjamin Brierly, “Mammon”, in Ab-o'th'-yate's Dictionary: Or Walmsley Fowt Skoomester[2], Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 142:
- Moore sacrifices han bin made to mammon than wurn ever crushed under th' wheels of owd Jiggernowt, or wur stretched on th' altars i'th' days of th' owd Druids.