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wouldn't

verb
/ˈwʊdn̩t/UK/wʊdⁿn̩t/US/ˈwʊnt/

Etymology

Contraction of would + not, equivalent to would + -n't.

  1. inherited from wolde
  2. formed as wouldn't — “would + -n't”

Definitions

  1. would not (negative auxiliary)

    • Wouldn't you often have supper on the terrace on Sundays?
    • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wouldn't. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA