• Didna

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈdɪdnÉ™/

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    Borrowing from en sco.

    Full definition of didna

    Contraction

    1. (Scotland) did not
      • 1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Chapter , And he gi'ed him anither shake--then, laying haud of his nose, he swore that he would pu't as lang as a cow's tail, if he didna that instant restore him his lost property.
      • 1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, Between Whiles Chapter , Don't ye remember I wore it to the picnic? an' then it didna suit, an' I put it back in the box.
      • 1917, John Hay Beith, All In It: K(1) Carries On Chapter , When I said that a man's name was on a bullet, I didna mean that it was written there."
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