Byen

Pronunciation

• IPA: en, /ˈbjÉ›n/

Origin

A dialectal reflex of Northern , featuring the local change of Middle English to .

Full definition of byen

Noun

1. (Geordie) bone
• 1840, R. Emery, The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect Chapter Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water, Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen,
  And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—

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