what of
English
Adverb
- What about; used to ask someone to consider something or someone that they have apparently not considered.
Preposition
- (rare) Due to, because of.
- 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild:
- pages 149–150: He sat down very slowly and painstakingly what of his great stiffness.
- page 152: What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.
- 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild:
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