-'nt
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nt"
English
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- Obsolete form of -n't.
- 1756, anonymous author, Emily; or, The History of a Natural Daughter[1], London: F. Noble & J. Noble, Volume I, Book III, p. 205:
- Hold your foolish Tongue, Mr. Metal, said she, and get you to-bed; have’nt I plague enough with this audacious Slut, do you think, without your meddling and making?
- 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives. a Novel:
- To be sure! This will do! I shall be fain to think a summut of ee, now you can flamgudgin 'em a thisn. I did'nt a think it was innee. Why you will become a son of my own begettin. I write to tellee the good news, and that ee mightn't a kick down the milk. You have a sifflicated Sir Arthur. I could a told ee afore that you had a sifflicated Missee. But I was afeard as that you wur a too adasht. But I tellee it will do! Father's own lad! An ear-tickler! Ay, ay! That's the trade! Sugar the sauce, and it goes down glibly.
- 1811, “Militia Muster”, in The Baltimore Repertory of Papers on Literary and Other Topics […] [2], volume 2, Baltimore: Joseph Robinson, page 27:
- That too would have been very handsomely done, if you had'nt handled catridge instead of shettin pan, but I suppose you want noticing.
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, page 35:
- "And because you would'nt let him he doubled you up with a wallop in your dumpling-depot, did'nt he?"
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