don't
verbEtymology
From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.
Definitions
do not (negative auxiliary).
- Don't you think mom's awfully busy today?
- Don't be such a nuisance!
- Why don't I carry those bags for you?
does not.
- L. C. Baron. That don't alter the Pronunciation. It is the same Name.
- My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he’s very proud and don’t like to mix with his neighbors.
Used before an emphatic negative subject.
- Don’t nobody care.
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Stop!
Chiefly in dos and don'ts
Chiefly in dos and don'ts: something that must or should not be done.
- Among the don'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine.
- And here’s one universal selfie don’t - if the setting is your bathroom, or any bathroom for that matter, it has no place in your Tinder lineup. Not hot.
Contraction of done + it.
The neighborhood
Derived
dildon't, don't count your chickens before they're hatched, don't drop the soap, don't feed the troll, don't hate the player, hate the game, don't knock it till you've tried it, don't let the bedbugs bite, don't let the door hit you on the way out, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, don't mention it, don't pass go, don't pee in the wind and tell me it's raining, don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining, don't put all your eggs in one basket, don't shit where you eat, don't shoot the messenger, hairdon't, yabba dabba don't, you don't know what you've got till it's gone
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at don't. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at don't. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at don't
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA