disna

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Etymology

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From Scots.

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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 !

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disna

  1. does not