woo't
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[edit]woo't
- (archaic) Contraction of wouldst thou.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 2:
- Come show me what thou'lt doe. / Woo’t weepe? Woo’t fight? Woo’t teare thy selfe? / Woo’t drinke up Esile, eate a Crocodile?