een
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of een
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, form-of, plural)plural of eye
“And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne”
“But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.”
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noun
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(Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, form-of, plural)plural of eye
“And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne”
“But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.”
- (Scotland, dialectal, poetic)evening.
adv
- (Northern-England, dialectal, not-comparable)even.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a contraction of even.
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