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Utterance vs Dunno - What's the difference?

utterance | dunno |

As nouns the difference between utterance and dunno

is that utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc) while dunno is an utterance of the word .

As a contraction dunno is

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utterance

English

Alternative forms

* utteraunce

Etymology 1

From

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of uttering.
  • * (John Milton)
    • at length gave utterance to these words
  • Something spoken.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
  • The ability to speak.
  • Manner of speaking.
  • * Bible, Acts ii. 4
    • Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
  • * (John Keats)
    • O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
  • (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
    • Quotations
    * Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas Hill
    Related terms
    * utter * utterable * utterer

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) oultrance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
  • *:
  • *:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid

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    dunno

    English

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
    • I dunno''' the answers to any of those questions, and you '''dunno''' and he '''dunno either.
    "Where'd he go?" / "Dunno ."

    Usage notes

    This is one of the only verb forms in English that regularly does not require a pronoun. When the pronoun is not given, it is assumed to be I; all other pronouns must be given. It is never mandatory to drop I'', although it is most common to do so when ''dunno is the only word in the sentence.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An utterance of the word .