Citations:whaten

See also: Citations:whatn

English citations of whaten

what kind (of)

• 1816, Scott, Antiquary, xv:

  Whaten a gate's that to ride?

  "I'm feared he's in prison, Mary."

what

• 1893, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Mate of the "Easter Bell" and Other Stories, page 112:

  "Oh woman! woman! Whaten's the matter ? Where's my lad ?"

• 1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Femmetia: And Other Stories, page 143:

  "Very well, lad; whaten is thou fain to be?"

could be either

• 1838 (edition of 1866), James Hogg, Tales, 221:

  ‘See, whaten white scares are yon?’ ‘Some exhalation of the morning.’

• 1838 (edition of 1866), James Hogg, Tales, 320:

  Whaten a niff-naff of a glass is this?

• 1897, Ernest Hamilton, The Outlaws of the Marches, 66:

  And whaten business hae ye wi' Braidlie?