Jawn is a noun, an informal one, and it is 'chiefly Philadelphia,' according to Dictionary.com.
The word "Jawn is a noun, an informal one, and it is "chiefly Philadelphia," according to Dictionary.com.
The definition is listed as, "Something or someone for which the speaker does not know or does not need a specific name."Another one on the site is: "It's gonna be crazy at that jawn tonight." In an interview with the Inquirer, Dictionary.com's head of lexicography said the website, "finally reached the point where including it in the dictionary was unavoidable."
"It was sitting two years in our database, waiting, having been heard on TV and in movies, books, songs, and blog posts," officials continued. "It became overwhelming, and we finally had to include it."A jawn is a person, place, or thing. Jawn can be a noun or sometimes an action verb, for example, "do the jawn.""The jawn should have been in that jawn from the giddy-up," wrote one user on X.
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