wanst
See also: Wanst
English
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editwanst (not comparable)
- (archaic) once
- 1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: Being Poetical Pieces, Spiritual and Temporal...[1], page 167:
- Be the bye, I wanst knew art ould woman of that name. She was my darling Tibbie, but a notorious drunkard.
- 1838, Charles Dickens et al., Bentley's Miscellany[2], page 308:
- Now, shut your eyes, and turn round wanst.' whispered the Grey Man. Shawn did as he was desired ; but, when he looked about, he was struck all of a hape to find himself standing in his own bawn....
- 1837, Charles Fenno Hoffman et al., The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine[3], page 68:
- Wanst I was wo'th twenty thousand doll are, and I driv the saddling profession.
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editScots
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editwanst (not comparable)
- Alternative form of ance
References
edit- “wanst, adv., conj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.