wouldn't

See also: wouldnt

English

Etymology

would +‎ -n't

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwʊdn̩t/
  • (US) IPA(key): [wʊdⁿn̩t], [wʊɾənt]
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Verb

wouldn't

  1. would not (negative auxiliary[1])
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.

See also

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