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Don't
Definitions
- 1 Contraction of done + it. abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction
- 1 Stop!
- 1 Chiefly in dos and don'ts: something that must or should not be done.
"Among the don'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine."
- 1 do not (negative auxiliary).
"Don't you think mom's awfully busy today?"
- 2 does not. nonstandard
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, saies he. Blessed are those that mourn. He don't say, Blessed are those that rejoyce; or, Blessed are those that have the Assurance of Gods love; or, Blessed are those that are strong in Grace: No, but doest thou know a poor weak, Christian, a mourning soul like a Dove of the Valleys; saies the Lord, I blesse him."
- 3 Used before an emphatic negative subject.
"Don’t nobody care."
Etymology
From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.
From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.
From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.
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