Meanings
- nonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of wasn't.
We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted.
1885, Mark Twain, chapter 19, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1 more example
Perhaps if I warn't a blacksmith's wife, and (what's the same thing) a slave with her apron never off I should have been to hear the Carols.
1860, Charles John Huffam Dickens, chapter 4, in Great Expectations - nonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of weren't.
"Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"
1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with warn't
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