Jawn vs Tawn - What's the difference?
jawn | tawn |
(slang, chiefly Philadelphia) Something; any object, place or thing.
:Check out this jawn .
*2001 , Steve Jackson, "Takin it back B/W BEEF", rec.music.hip-hop [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/c415feed930748c0]:
*:"Then I started thinking of the Scenario remix and was like yo, that jawn was just as good."
*2007 September 23, Jessica Pressler, "The Bar Car is Rocking" in New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/fashion/23boite.html?ref=fashion]:
*:"Just back from a tour in Australia, he was sitting at a table in the dining car with a group of friends that included members of the hip-hop groups Spank Rock and Plastic Little. 'This,' he said, 'is the jawn .'"
*2013 August 20, MK Asante, Buck: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau) [http://genius.com/Mk-asante-buck-a-memoir-chap-1-annotated]:
*:"Jawn' can mean anything—person, place, or thing. Sometimes if we’re telling a story and don’t want people to know what we’re talking about, we’ll plug '''jawn''' in for everything. The other day I was at the '''jawn''' around the corner with the young '''jawn''' from down the street. We get to the '''jawn''', right, and the ngh at the door is all on his '''jawn''', not knowing I had that '''jawn''' on me. Man, it was about to be on in that ' jawn ."
(slang) A woman.
:Yo, you see that jawn , she bad as shit.
*1999 July 16, “da One and Only Jazzman”, “Re: RapCity: UnderHouston”, rec.music.hip-hop, Usenet ,[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/edf3ed4e04932a25]
*:MY boi in NY, when he first came to Philly, used to tell me the philly jawns were easy.
*2005 , Krystle J. Nutter, Turned Out ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=5ehZ6HwispcC] iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-36207-9, page 1,
*2006 , G. D. McCrary, Guerrillas in the Midst ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=QX5h8KeTbXMC] Papyrus & Pen Publishing, ISBN 0977068714, page 39,
*:“Who? The jawn sittin’ in the truck wit’ choo? I think I know her.”
*2009 , Asher Roth, I Love College ,
*:“When it comes to condoms, put two on, and tomorrow night, find a new jawn .”
As verbs the difference between jawn and tawn
is that jawn is while tawn is to tan, make tawny.As nouns the difference between jawn and tawn
is that jawn is (slang|chiefly philadelphia) something; any object, place or thing while tawn is (rare) a tan.jawn
English
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Noun
(en noun)- I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main jawn stuck out in particular.