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done a never

done a never is the past participle of do a never.

Meaning of do a never

Verb

do a never (third-person singular simple present does a never, present participle doing a never, simple past did a never, past participle done a never)

  1. (UK, dated, slang) To mess about; to idle instead of working.
    • The Chief Buffer has got a howl on now because he got a blast from Torps, as so many of the part of ship hands were doing a never on the messdecks instead of working the main derrick.1943, Robert Burgess, Roland Blackburn, We Joined the Navy

Questions about done a never

What is done a never the past participle of?
Done a never is the past participle of do a never.

Words near done a never in the dictionary

  1. done a little bit of trolling
  2. done a little trolling
  3. done a lot of work
  4. done a Melba
  5. done a moonlight flit
  6. done a never
  7. done a number on
  8. done a perish
  9. done a power of good
  10. done a runner
  11. done a slow burn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: done a never (page history and authors); do a never (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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