warn't
See also: warnt
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nt
Verb
[edit]warn't
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of wasn't.
- 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 19, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted.
- 1860, Charles John Huffam Dickens, chapter 4, in Great Expectations:
- Perhaps if I warn't a blacksmith's wife, and (what's the same thing) a slave with her apron never off I should have been to hear the Carols.
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of weren't.
- 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:
- "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"