wantum

1. imitating broken EnglishTo want.

   Oh, ah — er — me wantum Chinkie just come in.

   2003, Thomas Burke, More Limehouse Nights, →ISBN, page 126

   2 more examples

   Then he have wongie along Sargint in office feller. White blackfeller wantum know 'bout old Sarah, an' Sargint he tellum she goodoh.

   1998, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, →ISBN, page 82

   “You wantum eat? You wantum sleep? If you wantum eat you wakum up.”

   2009, Richard M. Dixon, Choosing Sides, →ISBN, page 166

plural wantums

1. A quantifiable deficiency or desire

   Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

   1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy

   3 more examples

   A projection of “Wantum” requires, in the Couple, a reciprocal agreement on the part of the other to allow more than his own portion of Wantum to be discovered in him or herself.

   1993, Harold N. Boris, Passions of the Mind: Unheard Melodies, →ISBN

   To use Wylie's phraseology: the quantum of this particular discursive wantum cannot vary.

   2004, Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clément, After Beckett, →ISBN, page 249

   The desire to find something could provoke what she called 'wantum mechanics,' fishing a result out of nothing but noise.

   2014, Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus: Artifact, Cosm, Eater, →ISBN