dudn't

dudn't

English

Contraction

dudn't

1. Eye dialect spelling of didn't.
   • 1864, Black Moss, p. 100:

     "There ya's for ivver wrong, Abraham," said Job ; "dudn't Gideon Cuyp bury awe feeve er 'em? dudn't he strip 'em? dudn't he strip th' co-at o'er feeve er th' bodies? ..."

   • 1894, Belgravia, Vol. 84, p. 380:

     Na, na, lassie, ah dudn't meaan teh ang-er theh!" said Robin soothingly, as he threw his arm round her, and comforted her.

   • 1921, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Green Apple Harvest, p. 33:

     You dudn't use to go wud the gipsies, you dudn't use to go to raaces — and now you do both, surelye.

2. Eye dialect spelling of doesn't.
   • 2001, Pat Perkins Twedt, From the Daybook of Picky Sinclair, p. 173:

     I said, “But what about all the sixteen years since Olene and Gus have been married? Olene's worked like a field hand, besides havin' one baby after another? Dudn't that count for anything?” “No, miss, it dudn't.”

   • 2003, Heather Woodbury, What Ever: A Living Novel, p. 149:

     Love dudn't work. That's what my mother told me: "Love dudn't work!”

   • 2013, Sonny Allen, The Paper Boy, p. 253:

     “Anyway, the prisoner dudn't speak English and she dudn't speak German.

See also

• cudn't
• wudn't