dunnarf

English

Alternative forms

• dun'narf

Etymology

A reduction of do not half or does not half. See not half.

Contraction

dunnarf

1. (British, colloquial) do/does to a great extent.
   • 1971, Ian Curteis, Long Voyage Out of War: A Trilogy of Television Plays, published 1971, page 175:

     I dunnarf feel ill.

   • 2013, Phillipa Bowers, The Secrets Of The Cave, published 2013, page 41:

     I knock it every time we kneel for prayers, it dunnarf hurt.

   • 2013, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Gutted, published 2013:

     FRANKIE presents her hands. BRIDIE holds them – checking the feel of them. You lot dun'narf get the pretty ones duncha? Don't know how you brood of ugly bastards do it.