'twill
See also: twill
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twɪl/
- Rhymes: -ɪl
- Homophone: twill
Contraction
‛twill
- (poetic) Contraction of it will.
- 1597, Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1:
- Mercutio:No: 'tis not so deepe as a well, nor so wide as a Church doore, but 'tis inough, ’twill serue: aske for me to morrow, and you shall find me a graue man.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
- “You get the Red Room, Kipper.” “Right-ho.” “I had it last year. ’Tis not as deep as a well nor as wide as a church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve,” I said, recalling a gag of Jeeves’s.
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Synonyms
- (it will): it’ll
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