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dunnarf en · X

Etymology

A reduction of do not half or does not half. See not half.

Meanings

  1. (UK, colloquial, contraction) do/does to a great extent.
    • I dunnarf feel ill. 1971, Ian Curteis, Long Voyage Out of War: A Trilogy of Television Plays, published 1971, page 175:
    • I knock it every time we kneel for prayers, it dunnarf hurt. 2013, Phillipa Bowers, The Secrets Of The Cave, published 2013, page 41:
    • FRANKIE presents her hands. BRIDIE holds them – checking the feel of them. You lot dun'narf get the pretty ones duncha? Don't know how you brood of ugly bastards do it. 2013, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Gutted, published 2013:

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