Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colloquial and vulgar contraction of was not.
Wiktionary
- colloquial, dated Eye dialect spelling of wasn’t.
GNU Webster's 1913
- A colloquial contraction of
was not .
Examples
“An' do ye know, Dave, he sez to me, 'they got in an' made a smudge, and there wa'n't a darned mosquito in sight. ”
“The clerk of yourn said he didn't know, an 'ez there wa'n't no call to pester him, I said I'd jest drop round an' see you.”
“This wa'n't no effete civilization like it's come to be now.”
“And in them days they wa'n't ary a steamboat or ary a trading-post, and we cusses had to live offen salmon-bellies and rabbit-tracks.”
“When you an 'me mushed into the Yukon in the good ole days, it didn't rain soup and they wa'n't no free-lunch joints.”
“We can pan the snow for the beans and rice ... though there wa'n't more'n eight or ten pounds of rice left.”
“When you fellers was his age, you wa'n't dry behind the ears yet.”
“Bimeby they wa'n't no stick left — only a nubbin, about four inches long, an 'it was Rocky's turn.”
“She said she wa'n't gonna leave me, ahh, but she told, poor me a lie”
“I wa'n't nowhere near Bargi-Mart," the thief said.”
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