different between gawn vs tawn

English

Etymology 1

Corrupted from gallon.

Noun

gawn (plural gawns)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

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Etymology 2

Corrupted from going.

Verb

gawn

1. (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.”

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?n/

Noun

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Verb

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of tan, influenced by tawny.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?n/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /t?n/
• Homophone: torn (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

tawn (third-person singular simple present tawns, present participle tawning, simple past and past participle tawned)

1. (transitive) To tan, make tawny.

Noun

tawn (plural tawns)

1. (rare) A tan.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 5:

     In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.

Etymology 2

From town.

Proper noun

tawn

1. (Bermuda, colloquial, uncountable) Hamilton (the capital city of Bermuda).

Holonyms

• Bermy, de rock

Noun

tawn (plural tawns)

1. (Bermuda, countable) Pronunciation spelling of town.

Anagrams

• Want, wa'n't, wan't, want

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tau?n/

Etymology 1

Verb

tawn

1. first-person plural present/future and imperative of tewi

Etymology 2

Verb

tawn

1. first-person singular counterfactual conditional of bod (used after pe (“if”), which can also be omitted)