whatso

whatso

1. (obsolete) Whatever, whatsoever.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     So she went out to fetch her needful from the Bazar and Alaeddin retired to his chamber and taking the Lamp rubbed it, when forthright appeared to him its Slave and said, "Ask, O my lord, whatso thou wantest."

   • 1914, Francis Thompson, "Ode to the Setting Sun":

     Whatso looks lovelily
     Is but the rainbow on life's weeping rain,
     Why have we longings of immortal pain,
     And all we long for mortal?

whatso (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Clipping of whatsoever. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• hot saw, so what