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Wern vs Gern - What's the difference?

wern | gern |

As verbs the difference between wern and gern

is that wern is (obsolete|transitive) to refuse while gern is (obsolete) to grin.

wern

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To refuse.
    • He is too great a niggard that will wern / A man to light a candle at his lantern. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)

    gern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grin.
  • (obsolete) To yawn.
  • * Spenser
    • [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .
    (Webster 1913) ----