woz en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /wəz/
Etymology
From was, wuz.
Meanings
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(alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Eye dialect spelling of was.
alt of was
We woz robbed, Brian.
2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, →ISBN, page 343:'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'
1894, George Egerton, Discords, page 120:"You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'.
1893, Bret Harte, Susy: A Story of the Plains: