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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Contraction of shall not.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A contraction of shall not.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper possessive noun colloq. A contraction of shall not.

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  • phrase shall not

Etymologies

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Abbreviation of shalln't

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  • "We've got so many tchotchkes

    we've pratically emptied the Louvre

    In most of our palaces

    there's hardly room to manoeuvre

    I shan't go to Bali today

    I must stay home and Hoovre

    up the gold dust

    That doesn't mean we're in love"

    the Magnetic Fields, Zebra

    plenty of good word playfulness going on here.

    July 23, 2008

  • My favourite bit is at the end: Zelda looks lonely...

    July 23, 2008