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(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, dialect, archaic) What.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, dialect, archaic) What.

Origin: Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to , but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn), later used in place of bare what. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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