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from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
whaten .
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Examples
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"Eh, sirs! eh, sirs!" cried I, "whatna gaits 'that to steer a bodie, wad ye harry a puir chiel o' a 'his warldly gear, shame till ye, shame till ye, shank yoursell's awa."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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"On whatna charge, Mr. MacTaggart, on whatna charge?" asked the writer, taking a confident, even an insolent, tone, now that he was on his own familiar ground.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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'Please cud ye tell me whatna shop Dave Broonlee works intil?'
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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La Voy Le Voy 97 (in footnote) whatna whatna '63 (twice) nor or 103
The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Hudson Stuck 1891
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England, and tutors, and whatna ', but Drumtochty carried aff the croon.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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The minister is right; whatna for are we hurrying up the future?
A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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If you love Maggie sae blindly as a 'that, whatna for did you leave her then?
A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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--- But whatna wife's this, wi 'her creel on her back?
The Antiquary 1845
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I was so mortified, that I did not know what to say; and when Andrew Pringle, my son, rebuked the man for the mistake, he only gave a cunning laugh, and said we should have told him whatna Norfolk
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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-- But whatna wife's this, wi 'her creel on her back?
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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