disna

See also: disnâ

English

Contraction

disna

Eye dialect spelling of does not.
- 1874, “Is a Miracle Credible?”, in The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Worker, page 209:
  Ah but, Nanse woman, I'm sad to say that he disna believe what he reads in his Bible.
- 1884, Mary Charlotte J. Leith, From over the water, page 328:
  She was awful raised kind, and wanderin' and that, at the first; but she disna ken onything now, and she disna speak; she's just a sort o' done out, peer creature; but doctor thinks maybe there'll come a lightenin' or she go.
- 1906, “The Auld Lads of Corrievreckan”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 145:
  No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.

Anagrams

'sdain, Dains, Indas, NSAID, Nidas, isnad

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