词汇 | hisn |
词源 | hisn. Him as prigs what isn’t hisn When he’s cotch’d he goes to prison. The old proverbial adage is proof that hisn isn’t a backwoods Americanism. Hisn has a long and respectable lineage, dating back to the early 15th century and used by Richardson in hisn novel Clarissa. Nowhere, however, is the word properly used in place of his today. |
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