gan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 4
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 3
/ɡæn/
Definition of gan
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(North, Northumbria, Yorkshire)To go.
“The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".”
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verb
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(North, Northumbria, Yorkshire)To go.
“The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".”
- (archaic, form-of, past)simple past of gin
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).
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