Was vs Wan - What's the difference?
was | wan |
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(proscribed, dialect) .
* 1913 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt
(colloquial)
* 2001 , Darrel Rachel, The Magnolias Still Bloom (page 104)
Pale, sickly-looking.
* Spenser
* Longfellow
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Dim, faint.
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Bland, uninterested.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) (win)
As a determiner was
is your (plural and polite).was
English
Verb
(head)- "Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?"
- “What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”
Derived terms
* *See also
* am * are * is * art * be * being * been * beest * wast * were * wert * woz * wuzStatistics
*wan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(wanner)- Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
- the wan moon overhead
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- A wan expression
Noun
(-)- Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.