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Verb

wurn

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of weren.
    • 1840, John Colson, The Lancashire Dialect, or the Adventures and Misfortunes of a Lancashire Clown […] ‎, 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, 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.
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