wa'n't

See also:want,Want,Wänt,andwan't

English

Alternative forms

• wan't

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/wɒnt/,(unstressed)/wənt/

Contraction

wa'n't

1. (colloquial,dated)Pronunciation spellingofwasn't.Comparewadn't.
   • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln,chapter III, inMr. Pratt’s Patients,New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:

     My hopeswa'n'tdisappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

   • 1903,Kate Douglas Wiggin,Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:

     "You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 'twa'n'tfor me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard. "

Anagrams

• tawn