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whatso

whatso pronoun: whatever, whatsoever. Also the clipping of whatsoever.

Pronoun

whatso

  1. (obsolete) Whatever, whatsoever.
    • So she went out to fetch her needful from the Bazar and Alaeddin retired to his chamber and taking the Lamp rubbed it, when forthright appeared to him its Slave and said, "Ask, O my lord, whatso thou wantest."1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […]...
    • Whatso looks lovelily / Is but the rainbow on life's weeping rain. / Why have we longings of immortal pain, / And all we long for mortal?1889, Francis Thompson, “Ode to the Setting Sun”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume I (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 125

Also used as

whatso is also the clipping of whatsoever.

Origin of whatso

From Middle English whatso, from Old English hwæt swā; equivalent to what + so.

Questions about whatso

What does whatso mean?
Whatso means whatever, whatsoever.
What part of speech is whatso?
Whatso is a pronoun.

Words near whatso in the dictionary

  1. whatsisnames
  2. whatsit
  3. whatsits
  4. whatsitsname
  5. whatsitsnames
  6. whatso
  7. whatsoe'er
  8. whatsoever
  9. whatsomever
  10. Whatstandwell
  11. whatstheirface

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