"ownah" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ownahs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ownah (plural ownahs)
  1. (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of owner. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: owner

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1924, The Fighting Coward:",
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          "ref": "1929, Forest and Stream:",
          "text": "\"Ownah? Man, dey ain't no ownah! Dem chickins is wild. Dem's prairah chickins, man, prairah chickins.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, William Matthews Johnson, The House on Corbett Street: A Novel of Negro Stirrings Amid Discontent:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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..",
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