wuz

See also: wuž

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wəz/
  • Homophone: was (unstressed)

Verb

wuz

  1. Eye dialect spelling of was.
    She wuz robbed!
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 64:
      ‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’

Scots

Verb

wuz

  1. (Southern Scots) simple past tense of be

See also

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