wanta

See also: Wanta

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Written form of a reduction of want to, used informally in most English dialects.

Contraction

wanta

  1. Eye dialect spelling of want to.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 163:
      “We don’t wanta. Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”

See also

Meriam

Noun

wanta

  1. penis

Warlpiri

Noun

wanta

  1. sun
  2. summer
  3. year
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