oncet

alternative onct · alternative onest · alternative onced · alternative wunst

1. Southern USnonstandardnot comparableSouth Midland USOnce.

   He meets oncet in a while people, Mr. Redman; while, with us, what is it?

   1912, Montague Glass, Elkan Lubliner, American

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   If we could see the last of that man, Didenhover, oncet, I'd take hold of the plough myself, and see if I couldn't make a living out of it.

   1854, Elizabeth Wetherell, Queechy, Volume I

   "I seen 'im oncet, in the spring, I s'pose," said Jim, "what there was left of 'im.

   1875, J. G. Holland, Sevenoaks

   Jest tuk the best rooms in that new hotel, got a hoss and buggy, dressed ourselves, you and me, fit to kill, and made them Fort people take a back seat in the Lord's Tabernacle, oncet for all.

   1889, Bret Harte, The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales

   Why, Judith, Granny Peavey, our maw's mother, told us oncet about a dumb supper that her and two other gals made when she was but sixteen year old, and her sweetheart away from her in Virginny, and she didn't know whar he was at, an' they brought her tales agin him."

   1908, Alice MacGowan, Judith of the Cumberlands

   Synonyms: once