woz

English

Etymology

From was, wuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wəz/

Verb

woz

1. Intentional or eye-dialect misspelling of was.
   • 1893, Bret Harte, Susy: A Story of the Plains:

     "You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'.

   • 1894, George Egerton, Discords^[1], page 120:

     'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'

   • 2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind^[2], ISBN 0802139191, page 343:

     We woz robbed, Brian.

Derived terms

• woz ere

Quotations

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