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un

 pronoun
     
un British English spoken

good 'un/bad 'un/little 'un etc

a short form of 'one', used to say that someone or something is good, bad etc. Teachers and careful speakers of English do not use this expression:
He's a bad 'un.
I ought to collect the little 'uns (=young children) from school.
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