dursn't
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dursn't
- (archaic, Yorkshire) Contraction of durst not.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers,[1], page 126:
- Dursn’t jump off a gate, dursn’t tweedle, dursn’t go on a slide, dursn’t stop a girl hittin’ her.
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying,, page 153:
- If he had been a man, he would a been there instead of making his sons do what he dursn’t.