dursn't

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1. YorkshireabbreviationarchaiccontractionContraction of durst + not.

   They dursn't go theer nomoor seein as they wor copp'd steylin last time.

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   Dursn’t jump off a gate, dursn’t tweedle, dursn’t go on a slide, dursn’t stop a girl hittin’ her.

   1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers,, page 126

   If he had been a man, he would a been there instead of making his sons do what he dursn’t.

   1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying,, page 153

   Synonyms: daredn't