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didn't used to

didn't used to is the negative of used to.

Meaning of used to

Verb

used to (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past used to, no past participle)

  1. (no-past-participle, no-present-participle) Formerly and habitually or repeatedly, but possibly no longer, did.
    • You never used to like soap operas, did you? I used to like that band long ago, and I was surprised I still do. I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced "mother" with the "r". It used to be me who ran the company. There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall.

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Questions about didn't used to

What is didn't used to the negative of?
Didn't used to is the negative of used to.

Words near didn't used to in the dictionary

  1. didley bows
  2. Didmarton
  3. DIDMOAD
  4. didn'
  5. didn't
  6. didn't used to
  7. didn'tcha
  8. didn'tchya
  9. didna
  10. didnae
  11. didncha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: didn't used to (page history and authors); used to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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