chillun
CHIL-uhn/ˈt͡ʃɪl.ən/
- 1Pronunciation spelling of children, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.
All the chillun ran down to the creek as soon as the sun came up.
Mama kept the chillun close during the long walk back home.
Note
A spelling that records how the word sounds rather than how it is usually written: the -dr- of children drops away and the ending softens to -un. It is already plural, the partner of the singular chile, so it takes a plural verb (the chillun are asleep). Writers use it mostly in dialogue, as in Walt Kelly's Pogo (1960), where Pogo calls a class to order with "All right, chillun!"
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