didna

English

Alternative forms

• didnae

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots didna.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdnə/

Contraction

didna

1. (Scotland) did not
   • 1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,‎^[1]:

     And he gi'ed him anither shake--then, laying haud of his nose, he swore that he would pu't as lang as a cow's tail, if he didna that instant restore him his lost property.

   • 1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, Between Whiles‎^[2]:

     Don't ye remember I wore it to the picnic? an' then it didna suit, an' I put it back in the box.

   • 1917, John Hay Beith, All In It: K(1) Carries On‎^[3]:

     When I said that a man's name was on a bullet, I didna mean that it was written there."

Anagrams

• DIAND, add-in, dandi, nidda

Scots

Alternative forms

• didnae

Etymology

did +‎ -na

Verb

didna

1. did not