What is "warn't"

Usage examples of "warn't".

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, -- that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.

Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use.

Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together.

I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow's Providence, but if Miss Watson's got him there warn't no help for him any more.

But I warn't comfortable long, because I happened to think of something.

So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes.

But there warn't no Spaniards and A-rabs, and there warn't no camels nor no elephants.

It warn't anything but a Sunday-school picnic, and only a primer-class at that.

I was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me.

I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time.

That law trial was a slow business -- appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it.

It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there.

But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it.

I took the bag to where it used to stand, and ripped a hole in the bottom of it with the saw, for there warn't no knives and forks on the place -- pap done everything with his clasp-knife about the cooking.

It kept a-coming, and when it was abreast of me I see there warn't but one man in it.