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’un pronoun Reduced of one attached to an adjective or pronoun.

1904-20 Kephart Notebooks 2:483 The gooder'ns’s all gone now! 1942 Hall Phonetics Smoky Mts 86 which'un, that'un, next'un, big'un, another'un. 1967 Hall Coll (Townsend TN) This here'un is made out of metal. 1989 Matewan OHP-9 They was twenty-four [children born by his two wives]. There was twelve of the first’uns, and twelve of the last’uns. 2005 Williams Gratitude 134 It had t’ be a good sized’un fer us all to git around it. 2012 Jourdan Medicine Men 30 Did them green pills hep ye? No? Then try some of these red’ns.

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