different between zawn vs jawn

English

Etymology

From Cornish sâwn, sawan (“chasm”). Cognate with Welsh safn (“mouth”), Breton staoñ (“palate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /z??n/

Noun

zawn (plural zawns)

1. (regional Britain) A deep and narrow sea-inlet in the British Isles, especially Cornwall and the south-west, cut by erosion into sea-cliffs, and with steep or vertical side-walls.

References

• Zawn Lens
• UK Climbing.com

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????n/

Etymology 1

Verb

jawn (third-person singular simple present jawns, present participle jawning, simple past and past participle jawned)

1. Obsolete form of yawn.

Noun

jawn (plural jawns)

1. Obsolete form of yawn.
   • 1600, John Marston, Antonio's Revenge

     Defiance to thy power, thou rifted jawn! Now, by the loved heaven, sooner thou shalt Rinse thy foul ribs from the black filth of sin That soots thy heart than make me wretched.

Etymology 2

[1990s]: Unknown, but perhaps an alteration of joint.

Noun

jawn (plural jawns)

1. (slang, chiefly Philadelphia) Something; any object, place or thing.
   • 2001, Steve Jackson, "Takin it back B/W BEEF", rec.music.hip-hop [1]:

     "Then I started thinking of the Scenario remix and was like yo, that jawn was just as good."

   • 2007 September 23, Jessica Pressler, "The Bar Car is Rocking" in New York Times [2]:

     "Just back from a tour in Australia, he was sitting at a table in the dining car with a group of friends that included members of the hip-hop groups Spank Rock and Plastic Little. 'This,' he said, 'is the jawn.'"

   • 2013 August 20, MK Asante, Buck: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau) [3]:

     "Jawn can mean anything—person, place, or thing. Sometimes if we’re telling a story and don’t want people to know what we’re talking about, we’ll plug jawn in for everything. The other day I was at the jawn around the corner with the young jawn from down the street. We get to the jawn, right, and the ngh at the door is all on his jawn, not knowing I had that jawn on me. Man, it was about to be on in that jawn."

2. (slang, chiefly Philadelphia) A woman.

   Yo, you see that jawn, she bad as hell.

   • 1999 July 16, “da One and Only Jazzman”, “Re: RapCity: UnderHouston”, rec.music.hip-hop, Usenet,^[4]

     MY boi in NY, when he first came to Philly, used to tell me the philly jawns were easy.

   • 2005, Krystle J. Nutter, Turned Out,^[5] iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 1,

     I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main jawn stuck out in particular.

   • 2006, G. D. McCrary, Guerrillas in the Midst,^[6] Papyrus & Pen Publishing, ?ISBN, page 39,

     “Who? The jawn sittin’ in the truck wit’ choo? I think I know her.”

See also

• shawty