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what'n, whatten, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈhwɒt(ə)n|
Forms: 6 quhaten, quhattane, -in(e, whattin, 9 whaten, -an, whatten. Also β. (with indef. art.) what'n a, whatna.
[Reduced form of whatkin a.; cf. that'n, thissen.]
Properly, What kind of; hence, what.
a1510Douglas K. Hart i. 245 Quhat will ȝe saye me now for quhaten plycht? c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxviii. 16 Quhattane ane glaikit fule am I. 1561Winȝet Bk. Questions Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 57 Quhattin a Papist I am in this samin ruid Buik of Questionis..I tak on hand to preue..the maist haly Martyris,..to hef bene the samin Papistis. 1600[? Lyly] Maydes Metam. iii. ii, Priapus quoth a? Whattin a God might that bee? 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, I wish I had whaten books ye wanted. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Whatten o'clock is't? 1891Morris Poems by the Way 157 And whatten a bed for me?
βa1796Burns ‘There was a lad’, But what'n a day o' what'n a style I doubt it's hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi' Robin. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxix, But whatna wife's this, wi' her creel on her back? 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy ix, Think, oot o' whatna pit the laddie has been digged. |