jine

jine

1. Pronunciation spelling of join.
   • 1895, James Whitcomb Riley, Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury‎^[1]:

     Ezry had his two little girls jine that night, and I ricollect the preacher made sich a purty prayer about the Savior a-cotin' from the Bible 'bout "Suffer little childern to come unto me" and all; and talked so purty about the jedgment day, and mothers a-meetin' the'r little ones there and all; and went on tel ther wasn't a dry eye in the house--and jist as he was a-windin' up, Abe Riggers stuck his head in at the door and hollered "fire" loud as he could yell.

• Njie

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑin/

From English join.

jine

1. join

From English joint. Compare African-American Vernacular English regionalisms jawn, jont.

jine

1. joint
2. place

   also see: jookjine ("juke house")

3. (generally or unspecified) thing; thingy; any object, place, or person

   also see: jawn, jont

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

jine

1. third-person singular optative active of jeti (“to conquer”)