wuz

See also: wuž

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wəz/
• Homophone: was (unstressed)

Verb

wuz

1. Eye dialect spelling of was.

   She wuz robbed!

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 64:

     ‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’

Scots

Verb

wuz

1. (Southern Scots) simple past tense of be

See also

• wur