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do n't

do n't is the obsolete form of don't.

Meaning of don't

Verb

don't

  1. Do not (negative auxiliary).
    • Don't you think mom's awfully busy today?
  2. (nonstandard) Does not.
    • Blessed are the poor in spirit, saies he. Blessed are those that mourn. He don't say, Blessed are those that rejoyce; or, Blessed are those that have the Assurance of Gods love; or, Blessed are those that are strong in Grace: No, but doest thou know a poor weak, Christian, a mourning soul like a...1649, William Bridge, edited by William Greenhill, John Yates, and William Adderley, The Works of William Bridge, Sometime Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridg: Now Preacher of the Word of God at...
  3. (African-American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject.
    • Don’t nobody care.

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Questions about do n't

What is do n't the obsolete form of?
Do n't is the obsolete form of don't.

Words near do n't in the dictionary

  1. do loops
  2. do lunch
  3. do me a favour
  4. do me a lemon
  5. do more harm than good
  6. do n't
  7. do no harm
  8. do not disturb
  9. do not enter
  10. do not kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes
  11. do not pass go, do not collect $200

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