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how now

how now interjection: hello, what is that?

Interjection

  1. (archaic) Hello, what is that?
    • How now ſir Iohn, what are you brawling here?
      Doth this become your place, your time, and buſineſſe?c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
    • How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Questions about how now

What does how now mean?
How now means hello, what is that?
What part of speech is how now?
How now is an interjection.

Words near how now in the dictionary

  1. how much do you charge
  2. how much does it cost
  3. how much is it
  4. how my
  5. how no
  6. how now
  7. how old are you
  8. how say you
  9. how see
  10. how should I know
  11. how so

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