why-not

See also: why not

English

Noun

(obsolete) A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.
- Hudibras
  When the church / Was taken with a why-not in the lurch.
- Harington
  This game […] was like to have been lost with a why-not.

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