warn't

See also: warnt

English

Verb

warn't

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of wasn't.
   • 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 19, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

     We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted.

   • 1860, Charles John Huffam Dickens, chapter 4, in Great Expectations:

     Perhaps if I warn't a blacksmith's wife, and (what's the same thing) a slave with her apron never off I should have been to hear the Carols.

2. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of weren't.
   • 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:

     "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"