rurn

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Verb

rurn (third-person singular simple present rurns, present participle rurning, simple past and past participle rurned or rurnt)

  1. (dialects including Southern US, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of ruin.
    • 2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, Wildstone Media, →ISBN, page 252:
      "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)
    • 2005, Nathaniel Cody Oliver, A Simple Kind of Man:
      "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."
    • 2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies:
      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).

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