'twouldn't

English

Alternative forms

• ’twou’dn’t (rare)

Etymology

’twould +‎ -n’t or 't + wouldn't

Contraction

’twouldn’t

1. (archaic) Contraction of it would not.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.