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- phrase US, northern
Dare not.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even that rat Comber had tole you we dassn't stay heah!
THE NUMBERS 2010
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They have been frightened by all sorts of things since Daddy found the treasure, and Libbit says they dassn't come out of their room at night, or even look out their windows, but this is day, and the thing behind them is too real not to be believed, and it is gaining.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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Even that rat Comber had tole you we dassn't stay heah!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Even that rat Comber had tole you we dassn't stay heah!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Oh, I dassn't take dat Donkey while she's glarin 'at me wif dem big eyes!
The Story of a China Cat Laura Lee Hope
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"And yer dassn't shake hands with me 'coz mine are all stuck up, so now!"
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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"Yer dassn't try that again!" said the mate in line with the obstreperous "Sally" who had so scorned the invitation of the hundreds of girls to "turn to the one that she loved best".
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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It wasn't your father – he hasn't the smeddum of a flea – but he wouldn't send you to do what he dassn't do himself.
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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Except that she thinks I'm such a pest that I dassn't let her know I'm in the same state, I sure am one successful lover.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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I don't know if they smoke here, and I dassn't be the first to try.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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