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gawn
English
Etymology 1
Corrupted from gallon.
Noun
gawn (plural gawns)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Corrupted from going.
Verb
gawn
- (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
- 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:
- I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.
- 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:
- Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”
- 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:
- “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”
- 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:
Anagrams
- AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?au?n/
Noun
gawn
- Soft mutation of cawn.
Verb
gawn
- Soft mutation of cawn.
Mutation
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bawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From Irish bábhún (“walled enclosure”).
Noun
bawn (plural bawns)
- A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
- But these round hills and square bawnes, which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, Thomas Sheridan (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), 1812, The British Classics, Volume 45: The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI, page 163:
- The Grand Question Debated
- Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house ? 1729
- This Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider.
- 1892, Joseph Jacobs (editor), Jack and His Master, Celtic Fairy Tales:
- When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?
- A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.
- 2004, Colm J. Donnelly, Passage or Barrier? Communication between Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick, in Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002, page 57:
- The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”
- 2004, Colm J. Donnelly, Passage or Barrier? Communication between Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick, in Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002, page 57:
Etymology 2
Participle
bawn
- Pronunciation spelling of born.
- 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny:
- But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.
- 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny:
Anagrams
- WNBA
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bau?n/
Verb
bawn
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod
Synonyms
- byddwn
Mutation
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