wouldn't

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English

Alternative forms

wo'n't (archaic)
wou'dn't (obsolete)
wudn't (pronunciation spelling)
wunt (Yorkshire, pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdn̩t/
- (US) IPA^(key): , ,
(Yorkshire) IPA^(key): /ˈwʊnt/,
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Rhymes: -ʊdn̩t, -ʊnt

Verb

wouldn't

would not (negative auxiliary^[1])
- 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.

Coordinate terms

can't, couldn't, mayn't, mightn't, oughtn't, shan't, shouldn't, won't

See also

References

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

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