wanst

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adverb

once

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Meanings

adverbwanst (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableonce

    Wanst I was wo'th twenty thousand doll are, and I driv the saddling profession.

    1837, Charles Fenno Hoffman et al., The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 68
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    Be the bye, I wanst knew art ould woman of that name. She was my darling Tibbie, but a notorious drunkard.

    1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: Being Poetical Pieces, Spiritual and Temporal..., page 167

    Now, shut your eyes, and turn round wanst.' whispered the Grey Man. Shawn did as he was desired ; but, when he looked about, he was struck all of a hape to find himself standing in his own bawn....

    1838, Charles Dickens et al., Bentley's Miscellany, page 308
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