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See also: wouldnt

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Etymology

Contraction of would not, equivalent to would +‎ -n't.

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Verb

wouldn't

  1. would not (negative auxiliary)
    Wouldn't you often have supper on the terrace on Sundays?
    • 1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

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References

  1. ^ Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513
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