Meaning

Obsolete form of yawn..

Definitions by Sense

1. Obsolete form of yawn.
2. (African-American Vernacular, slang, chiefly Mid-Atlantic US) Something; a thing; any object, place, or person.
3. (African-American Vernacular, slang, chiefly Mid-Atlantic US) A woman.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

"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.'"

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

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

Unlike most of these ghetto jawns who were wrapped up in all kinds of surface shit that didn't mean a damn thing, Muddah was like me in a lotta ways. She was from the streets but she had goals and dreams.

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

Word Forms

• jawns
• jawning
• jawned

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Use jawn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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