英和和英

名詞

ownah (複数形 ownahs)

1. (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of owner.
   • 1924, The Fighting Coward

     "And yeah comes the ownah of dis place — Gen'l O'lando Jackson–th' no-tor-ious fightah!"

   • 1929, Forest and Stream

     "Ownah? Man, dey ain't no ownah! Dem chickins is wild. Dem's prairah chickins, man, prairah chickins."

   • 1967, William Matthews Johnson, The House on Corbett Street: A Novel of Negro Stirrings Amid Discontent

     He called the ownah right away on the telephone, an when the ownah got down there he found out that all the cash money had been took outa the safe.

   • 2017, Work Projects Administration, THE VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves from 17 American States: True Life Stories from Hundreds of African Americans in South about Their Life in Slavery and after the Liberation, e-artnow (→ISBN)

     We took ouah name from ouah ownah, and we lived in a cabin way back of the big house, me and mah pappy and mammy and two brothahs..