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whatna

whatna contraction: what kind of.

Contraction

whatna

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, archaic, contraction, dialectal) what kind of
    • Whatna noise was that ye were makin'?1878, Saxon, Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago, section 183
    • O Jean, whatna time wi' thy sloth thou are wasting.1897, Poems, Allan, section 13

Forms of whatna

alternative formwhaten
alternative formwhatten

Questions about whatna

What does whatna mean?
Whatna means what kind of.
What part of speech is whatna?
Whatna is a contraction.

Words near whatna in the dictionary

  1. whatlike
  2. Whatling
  3. Whatman
  4. Whatman paper
  5. Whatman papers
  6. whatna
  7. whatness
  8. whatnesses
  9. whatnot
  10. whatnots
  11. whatnottery

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