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Adverb

why for (not comparable)

  1. (dialect) What for; for what reason; why.
    • 1914, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 42, page 96:
      "Why for didn't you come to breaksis?" she says. "What a timdoodle of a chap you be!"

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