watchaphr.
/ˈwɒtʃə/ colloquial or nonstandard.
‘What do you?’, ‘What are you?’, or ‘What have you?’
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1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness vi. 134 Hullo! Watcher mean, nap? I had got hold of a most important train of thought.
1966 ‘R. Petrie’ Dead Loss xiv. 108 Watcha gonna do, Jeff? You can't leave her here.
1967 E. Radford & M. A. Radford No Reason for Murder xxiii. 167 Watcher want with Waddy?
1969 in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 95 Watcha got there, Uncle?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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phr.1926- make good mien upon
- make good on
- make good one's escape
- make good one's running
- make good running
- make good time
- make good visage
- make good way
- make good work
- make good —— sense
- make good, bad, etc weather of it
- make grand slam
- make great account of
- make great count of
- make great esteem of
- make great estimation of
- make great force
- make great matter
- make great menace
- make great play of
- make great play with
- make great reckoning of
- make great regard of
- make great store of
- make gree