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how'll

/haʊl/

how'll contraction: how will.

Contraction

how'll

  1. (contraction) how will
    • I'm as willing to save life as the next man, but I'm not going to wreck my ship fooling round a reef in the night-time. How'll you get a boat over, anyhow?2004, Morgan Robertson, Sinful Peck
  2. (US, contraction, dated, dialectal) will, how about (as a proposal)
    • "Well, mine ain't," said Beatrice; "I wish she was, that's all; I'd like to change with you; come, how'll you swap?"1863, Harper's Magazine
    • So Smith took the bait, and says he, "Mr. Brown, I wouldn't sell out, but we might swap aroun' — How'll you trade your place fer mine?"1916, James Whitcomb Riley, Hewitt Hanson Howland, The Hoosier Book: Containing Poems in Dialect

Words that rhyme with how'll

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Questions about how'll

What does how'll mean?
How'll means how will.
What part of speech is how'll?
How'll is a contraction.
How do you pronounce how'll?
How'll is pronounced /haʊl/.

Words near how'll in the dictionary

  1. how would I know
  2. how you doing
  3. how you get them is how you lose them
  4. how you say
  5. how'd
  6. how'll
  7. how'm
  8. how're
  9. how're you
  10. how're you doing
  11. how's

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