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English
Etymology
would + -n't + -'ve
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wouldn't've
- (colloquial) Contraction of would not have.
1936, Eugene Morehead Armfield, Where the Weak Grow Strong, page 115:Anyway, my Daddy said if you wasn’t such a coward, trying to haze that boy with a big bunch of others, you wouldn’t’ve got shot in the first place […]
1950, Irwin Shaw, Mixed Company: Collected Short Stories of Irwin Shaw, page 276:[…] if there had been a man around, taking hold of things, her father’s partner wouldn’t’ve been able to get away with most of the estate the way he did…
1983, Elias Canetti, Comedy of Vanity and Life-Terms, page 47:I didn’t bring him here. If you wouldn’t have gone out, I wouldn’t have either. I’d have thrown him out right away. He wouldn’t’ve made it through the door.
- 2006 October, Goff Morgan, "We Wouldn't've Had To Do It" (poem).
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