Rurn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Rurn is a verb meaning (dialects including Southern US, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of ruin.
Meaning
(dialects including Southern US, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of ruin.
Example Sentences
"Now you put in one bay leaf, jist the one, mind, or ye'll rurn the whole damn bilin' of it!" —JUNIOR SAMPLES (Cooking twenty pounds of shrimp for a snack)
"Prob'ly 'bout rurned him." I don't say nothing, just stare at the ground. "Hell, would ye goddamn look at 'im? Turned 'isself inta a goddamn freak, all that goddamn metal in 'is face, all 'em tattoos 'bout eatin' 'im alahve."
A board'd float if it wutn't weighted down, so sometimes they put a clean rock on a short board or plate on top a the food down inside of a churn jar to hold it down 'nunder th' salt water or vinegar so it woutn't rurn (ruin).
Word Forms
- rurns
- rurning
- rurned
- rurnt
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ruin, ruinate, rend, undo, run down, rugburn.
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