Definitions
Wiktionary
- Eye dialect spelling of do not know; eye dialect spelling of does not know.
- n. An utterance of the word dunno.
Etymologies
- Written form of a reduction of do not know or does not know. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I dunno why. maybe MA thinks they are actually creating GOP votes..dunno how, but somehow MA thinks it is doing the world a great service by being a lying ass Rove troll”
“dunno why we have to be burned before appreciating real love'..dunno i dont believe 2 verses of a song should have repetitive lines/words.”
“I dunno, is that really the bogeyman the fully insured republican congressman thinks it is?”
Matthew Yglesias » NYT/CBS Poll Shows People Love Socialized Medicine
“I dunno, is it the mark of being K-K00L or something?”
“I dunno, is it possible to have a Jane Austen nowadays?”
“Adam: 7-8 years ago – I dunno, is that when Untold Tales was out?”
“When I was 13 and couldn't wait for the next Harry Potter book to be translated, I bought the original, made my way through it (I remember being mystified by the word 'dunno' - I didn't understand half of the words, of course, but this one appeared most often) and almost immediately went fan fiction hunting on the Internet.”
“From Super Mario up till that new baseball thing, he didn’t age a day and h’still wairs the same old ragged red pair of whachtchyamacallits (dunno the English word for it) you’d think he’d have some sort of fashin sense.”
“In a word, it's 'dunno' - my word, not the government's, though it's a fair summary of the responses from the two people who should know Australia's position on peace talks with the Taliban.”
“I know it is goofy, but my first tear jerker in comics, Rom (dunno which issue .. it been along time) but when brandy finds out her whole and friends were iced by wraiths.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dunno’.
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Fictional Irish Towns
better look them up beforehand, though--most everything in Ireland sounds fictional.
terwillicky, boblin, wommacky, gorm, killoonagh, birnet, puckle, whelvety, christmas aoimh, minnamogie, spackish, leprechaunia and 76 more...
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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Sometimes You Just Gotta.
oughta, stedda, woulda, coulda, shoulda, didna, lotta, gotta, betta, imma, holla, mighta and 22 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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uh huh, her
Some words myself (or others) might use to describe me
paradoxical, indecisive, existential, accurate, unorthodox, european, holistic, sincere, stoical, remorseful, opinionated, apathetic and 28 more...
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just saying
yeah, alas, aargh, bah, because, boo, certainly, damn, geez, grrr, hey, lame and 34 more...
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misspelled
misspellings i like
lectric, prolly, nother, dunno, cozza, lil, l33t, ur, rawk, dood, lemme, friggin and 20 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dunno.
catspringer I hate this word. Hate, hate, HATE this word. It's teen-speak for "I have no functioning opinions on anything". It even sounds dull and dismissive. Mar 2, 2009
artbizness This is what we're having for dinner tonight, according to the wife. Sep 18, 2008