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English citations of whatn
- whattan, whatna
- whatan, whatena, whatno, whitna, whuten
whatten
whaten
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.’
what'un
- what
- 1890, A. C. Bickley, Midst Surrey Hills, III, xvii:
- I say nothin' agin it, but if 'ee don't, why what'un?
whatt'n
what'n
- what kind of
- 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.
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!