wanst

See also: Wanst

English

Adverb

wanst (not comparable)

1. (archaic) once
   • 1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: Being Poetical Pieces, Spiritual and Temporal...‎, page 167:

     Be the bye, I wanst knew art ould woman of that name. She was my darling Tibbie, but a notorious drunkard.

   • 1838, Charles Dickens et al., Bentley's Miscellany‎, page 308:

     Now, shut your eyes, and turn round wanst.' whispered the Grey Man. Shawn did as he was desired ; but, when he looked about, he was struck all of a hape to find himself standing in his own bawn....

   • 1837, Charles Fenno Hoffman et al., The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine‎, page 68:

     Wanst I was wo'th twenty thousand doll are, and I driv the saddling profession.

Derived terms

• at wanst

Anagrams

• tawns, wants, wasn't, wasnt

Scots

Adverb

wanst (not comparable)

1. alternative form of ance

References

• “wanst, adv., conj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.