Citations:whatn

English citations of whatn

whattan, whatna

whatan, whatena, whatno, whitna, whuten

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whatn

what

• 1876, Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, Manchester Man, xliv / 1897, The Manchester Man, page 317:

  […] aw little thowt whatn a blessin' theaw'd be to us, or the credit theaw'd bring on ar neanne!

• 1888 March 10, Berrow's Worcester Journal:

  ‘Whatn yer think I telled oud kill-cauf ─ our butcher?’ ‘Dunno.’ ‘Why, as he wan a shrike, a Jack Baker, ecos he alleys hangs up what he slaughters.’

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what

• 1890, A. C. Bickley, Midst Surrey Hills, III, xvii:

  I say nothin' agin it, but if 'ee don't, why what'un?

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• 1902, Archibald McIlroy, The Humour of Druid's Island, 45:

  It bates a', what'n a haud a wean gets roon a budy's heart.

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whatn' (Scots?)

• 1834 May, Noctes Ambrosianae. No. LXV., in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 35, page 873:

  SHEPHERD. If it's no coorse, it's rude—and a man had better be coorse nor rude ony day—but O, sirs, whatn' a pity that in the Tent there are nae dowgs!

  TICKLER. I hate curs.

  SHEPHERD. A man ca'in' himsell a Christian, and hatin' poetry and dowgs!