hasn't

English

Etymology

has +‎ -n't

Pronunciation

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Verb

hasn't

Has not (negative auxiliary[1]).
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
  “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

References

Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513

Anagrams

Hants, NHTSA, Thans, ha'nts, hants, sha'n't, shan't, shant, snath

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