swunny
English
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- (intransitive, US, dialect) swear (in the phrase I'll swunny or I swunny, expressing wonderment)
- 1913, Jennette Lee, The Taste of Apples, page 345:
- "Well — I swunny! — That beats me — Never minded!" He got up and stretched himself — and looked at Anthony. "Never minded!" he said — and went slowly out, turning over London in his mind.
- 2011, Wanda Conley Lopez, The Man from Little Junction: Meet Ol' Jeb, page 73:
- “Well I'll swunny, that lil' booger jus' kicked an' kicked . . . He wuz so active Miz Betty an' I know'd that made Caroline feel more at ease with tha pregnancy an' all . . .