whyn'tv.
/ˈhwʌɪənt/ dialect and colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
Why don't? why didn't?
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [adverb] > why, wherefore, or for what reason > why don't or why didn't
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1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire 84 Why-n'ee go an' zee vor yurzell?]
1909 Dial. Notes 3 387 Whyn't, a common contraction for why didn't, why don't, etc. ‘Whyn't you come?’
1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxviii. 565 Whyn't ya whup her, Ma?.. Go on, give her a whup.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 28 Dec. 21/2 If it's a turtle it's dead as a doornail. It even stinks. Whyn't you chuck it back in the pond?
Derivatives
ˈwhyncha n. (also ˈwhyn'tcha) why don't (or didn't) you?
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [adverb] > why, wherefore, or for what reason > why don't or why didn't > why don't you
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1968 W. Labov et al. in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 344/1 Whyntcha tell me a couple of jokes.
1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking iv. 59 If you don't like it here, whyncha go back where you came from.
1989 T. Tryon Night of Moonbow iv. v. 264 Whyn'tcha tell me and I kin relay the message to him.
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