whatna

English

Alternative forms

whaten, whatten

Contraction

whatna

(Scotland, Northern England, dialect, archaic) what kind of
- 1878, Saxon, Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago, section 183:
  Whatna noise was that ye were makin'?
- 1897, Allan, Poems, 13:
  O Jean, whatna time wi' thy sloth thou are wasting.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
  'I kenna whatna man ye are,' he says, 'but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts. Tell me truly, is there no way to win her to common love?'

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