disna

See also: disnâ

English

Etymology

From Scots.

Contraction

disna

1. (Scotland, colloquial) does not
   • 1874, “Is a Miracle Credible?”, in The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Worker, page 209:

     Ah but, Nanse woman, I'm sad to say that he disna believe what he reads in his Bible.

   • 1884, Mary Charlotte J. Leith, From over the water, page 328:

     She was awful raised kind, and wanderin' and that, at the first; but she disna ken onything now, and she disna speak; she's just a sort o' done out, peer creature; but doctor thinks maybe there'll come a lightenin' or she go.

   • 1906, “The Auld Lads of Corrievreckan”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 145:

     No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.

   • 1923, “Olfaction and Public Health”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, page 10:

     the East is just a smell ! It begins at Port Said and disna stop till ye come to San Francisco, … if there !

Anagrams

• 'sdain, Dains, Dinas, Indas, NSAID, Nidas, isnad

Scots

Contraction

disna

1. does not