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- phrase US, dialectal Contraction of
why don't . - phrase US, dialectal Contraction of
why didn't .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Now whyn't some of you smart chaps go figure out how to fix this bloody mess."
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace Joshua Davis Don Foley 2008
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Oh yeah about editors .. sometimes it gets changed so much you want to say "look, whyn't I give you the structure and you can write your own novel?"
Severe Warning - Plagiarists Around! Sharon Bakar 2006
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"Now whyn't some of you smart chaps go figure out how to fix this bloody mess."
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace 2008
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I hope you have a deliciously relaxing birthday -- whyn't you get Ian to cook you some Thai food and give you a FOOT MASSAGE ...
ellen valentine 2006
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"Palma, honey, whyn't you move your mug of chocsub an" your little plate of brownies off that there coffee table so as I can spread this out.
Galaxy Jane Goulart, Ron, 1933- 1986
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Aw, whyn't y'all ack lak folks an 'leave de man talk.
De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston
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VOICE ON PORCH: (Kidding) Lum, whyn't you tend to your business.
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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Lum Boger, whyn't you git these kids away from here!
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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I asked him yesterday "-- these sentences were interspersed with the pantings necessary to pushing a swingful of ladies --" I asked him whyn't he stay for dinner, and he said -- he said he wanted to go home an 'have luncheon wiv Joy.
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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"Well, whyn't you say he was 'cross the street in the first place?"
Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907
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