unlessen

English

Etymology

Perhaps from unless and. Compare if'n.

Conjunction

unlessen

  1. (US, dialect) unless
    • 1913, Charles Neville Buck, The Call of the Cumberlands:
      I don't 'low to let him lay in no jail-house, unlessen he's got a right ter be thar. What's he charged with?
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