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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
oughtn't + -'ve.
Pronunciation[edit]
Contraction[edit]
oughtn't've
- (UK, colloquial or dialectal) ought not to have
2000, Richard Wright, The long dream:"Hell, mebbe we oughtn't've done that." Tony was regretful.
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