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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

or what en · X

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Or something else; allows for the existence of an unexpressed alternative to what was said.
    • [S]he asked me, and like you, I didn't know if that was like having heart failure or what. 2006, V.C. Andrews, Broken Flower, page 141:
    • How should he know or guess or what? 1926, Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, page 68:
    • I don't know if she was joking or what, but I joked back with her anyway. […]. Did I take her back to her hotel room and drop her off or what? 2007, Omar Tyree, What They Want: A Novel, page 95:
    • Rahneesh: Hey, Greggie, what about those new clothes, huh? You gonna cough up some new duds or what? 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 30:
    • Do they check you at the door or what?" Michael laughed. 1982, Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, page 146:

Translations (6)

pl czy co (Translations) · pl albo co (Translations) · tl o ano (Translations) · ta என்ன (Translations) · pl czy jak (Translations) · ru или ка́к (Translations)