Warn't

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of wasn't. alt-of, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling

    "We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted."

  2. 2
    Pronunciation spelling of weren't. alt-of, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling

    ""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!""

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"That's what I call a self-evident proposition, as the dog's-meat man said, when the housemaid told him he warn't a gentleman."

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