Definition of "dahn"

dahn

adverb
not comparable
1. (UK) Pronunciation spelling of down.
  Quotations
  At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front.
  1920, Fritz August Voigt, Combed Out‎
  He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em.
  1904, David Christie Murray, VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea‎
preposition
1. (UK, Bermuda) Pronunciation spelling of down.
  Quotations
  “So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs? Dunno abaht that. People in these parts is used to throwing one another dahn stairs for free.
  2007, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Faceless Fiend: The Faceless Fiend: Being the Tale of a Criminal Mastermind, His Masked Minions and a Princess with a Butter Knife, Involving Explosives and a Certain Amount of Pushing and Shoving, Book 2
  He's cool. Does triathlons dahn de Sahn.
  2013 September 5, James Burton, The Bermuda Sun‎, archived from the original on 12 December 2022