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Eye dialect spelling ofdo not know ;eye dialect spelling ofdoes not know. - noun An
utterance of the worddunno .
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Examples
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I dunno why. maybe MA thinks they are actually creating GOP votes..dunno how, but somehow MA thinks it is doing the world a great service by being a lying ass Rove troll
Think Progress » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress 2006
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'dunno why we have to be burned before appreciating real love'..dunno i dont believe 2 verses of a song should have repetitive lines/words.
AFFIRMATION princesa 2008
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I dunno, is it the mark of being K-K00L or something?
How Did You Like the Series Premiere of Stargate Universe? 2009
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I dunno, is that really the bogeyman the fully insured republican congressman thinks it is?
Matthew Yglesias » NYT/CBS Poll Shows People Love Socialized Medicine 2009
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I dunno, is it possible to have a Jane Austen nowadays?
SeeLight: 2006
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I dunno, is it possible to have a Jane Austen nowadays?
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Adam: 7-8 years ago – I dunno, is that when Untold Tales was out?
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When I was 13 and couldn't wait for the next Harry Potter book to be translated, I bought the original, made my way through it (I remember being mystified by the word 'dunno' - I didn't understand half of the words, of course, but this one appeared most often) and almost immediately went fan fiction hunting on the Internet.
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When I was 13 and couldn't wait for the next Harry Potter book to be translated, I bought the original, made my way through it (I remember being mystified by the word 'dunno' - I didn't understand half of the words, of course, but this one appeared most often) and almost immediately went fan fiction hunting on the Internet.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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From Super Mario up till that new baseball thing, he didn’t age a day and h’still wairs the same old ragged red pair of whachtchyamacallits (dunno the English word for it) you’d think he’d have some sort of fashin sense.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: Cruel Irony 2005
artbizness commented on the word dunno
This is what we're having for dinner tonight, according to the wife.
September 19, 2008
catspringer commented on the word dunno
I hate this word. Hate, hate, HATE this word. It's teen-speak for "I have no functioning opinions on anything". It even sounds dull and dismissive.
March 2, 2009