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shouldna

/shood-nuh/US // ˈʃʊd nə //

应纳,应那,应该是,应该是这样

Definitions

  1. 1

    Scot.

    • : contraction of should not.

Examples

  • "Few folk are—few folk are, Mr. Butler, though I say it that shouldna say it," returned Bartoline with great delight.

  • Ye're ondootiful, ye're disrespectfu', ye're maist ilka thing ye shouldna be; there's but ae thing I thocht ye were not—a coward.

  • No, I wouldnaI'd niver leave theetha'd be as miserable as sin, shouldna ta, my duck?

  • Yet they're fowk to be prood o', an' we shouldna let them overdo the thing, nor run into debt; na, na.

  • "Yo' shouldna speak so o' your dad, David," reproved the other as severely as was in her nature.