Jawn

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title: Jawn
text: Jawn is a slang term local to Philadelphia and, by extension, the Delaware Valley that may refer to a thing, place, person, or event, substituting for a specific name. Jawn is a context-dependent substitute noun; a noun that substitutes for other nouns. Jawn can be singular or plural. Examples include: "These jawns are expensive!", "pass me that jawn", "that new jawn", "this jawn is packed". Jawn is believed to be derived from the word "joint". Historically, the city's black population migrated
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description: Philadelphia slang term
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawn
date created: 2019-11-11T20:29:13Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T19:33:51Z
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