| 释义 |
wad'n, v. dial.|ˈwɒdn|
Also wadden, wadn.
[Repr. a contracted form of was not, as used in the dialect of the south-western counties of England.]
Was not.
1842G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sk. 20 One zummer's night zum furns an' I Made up our minds ta zee Wh'er 'twadd'n possible ta haa A midnight vishin' spree. 1847‘N. Hogg’ Lett. in Devonshire Dial. 25 Thare wis dresses all vorrin, an hair powder'd white, I be dang'd if it wadden a mosk komikal zight. 1886[see lie-by n. 1]. 1981B. Carter Black Fox Running (1982) xvi. 100 Cor bugger if he wadn in a state! |