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Byen

//ˈbjɛn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    bone Geordie

    "Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—"

Etymology

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

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