Wantum

"Wantum" in a Sentence (7 examples)

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

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

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

Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

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.

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

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

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