one'd

/wʌnd/

contraction

One would.

Meanings

contraction
  1. contractioninformalOne would.

    So ignorant of her job was she that one quarter-caste kiddie I pointed out she said was a halfcaste, and to prove it called the child out and asked her, as one'd speak to a prisoner in jail, wasn't her mother a lubra.

    1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 107
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APA

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Chicago

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