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- phrase regional, southern US, dialect, nonstandard, eye dialect Alternative form of
can't .
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Examples
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I guess I cain't look for him at that fancy downtown parkade.
We don't want your kind here Tyler 2009
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You just cain't put a price on what I gots to offer!
July 2009 Comments of the Month Tyler 2009
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As Ado Annie sang in a different context in Oklahoma, "I'm just a girl who cain't say no."
Miranda Levenstein: Saying Yes to Cravings Carrot Cake Cookies Miranda Levenstein 2011
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You just cain't put a price on what I gots to offer!
Archive 2009-07-26 Tyler 2009
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The menu, announced last week, includes cowboy caviar salad, a chuck-wagon panini, bison short ribs and Oklahoma succotash -- you cain't say no.
ARTS BRIEFS Post 2010
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As Ado Annie sang in a different context in Oklahoma, "I'm just a girl who cain't say no."
Miranda Levenstein: Saying Yes to Cravings Carrot Cake Cookies Miranda Levenstein 2011
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The smarty-pants back on Terra have been sending all kinds of junk our way, though, an' we keep hidin' so's they cain't find us.
Little Green Rednecks Hugh Barlow 2011
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You just cain't put a price on what I gots to offer!
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Reading the Marrs book, she says Miss Welty was happy for the workers to say no for her - she was one of those girls who cain't say no. * sing-along*; D
Eudora Welty (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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He lays it on thick after, by telling JLo "I know you cain't tell, but I am a quarter Puerto Rican," and that rings her chimes.
'American Idol' 2011: Top 24 survive the Trail of Tears 2011
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