"anan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Variant form of anon (“in a moment; presently”).",
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Patrick O'Brian, Clarissa Oakes [historical fiction, set circa 1812]",
          "text": "'You are familiar with the Polynesian, I collect?' asked Stephen.\n'Anan, sir?'\n'The South Sea language.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume III",
          "text": "“Anan!” cried Briggs, recovering his temper from the perplexity of his understanding, at a discourse to which his ears were wholly unaccustomed, “what d'ye say?”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume II",
          "text": "“I am quite assommé, Sir,” returned the Captain, “to disturb you, but I must really hint you don't comprehend me; the ladies are extremely inconvenienced by these sort of sights [a man without his wig], and we make it a principle they should never be accablées with them.”\n“Anan!” cried Mr Briggs, staring.\n“I say, Sir,” replied the Captain, “the ladies are quite au desespoir that you will not cover your head.”\n“What for?” cried he, “what's the matter with my head? ne'er a man here got a better! very good stuff in it; won't change it with ne'er a one of you!”",
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          "ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume I",
          "text": "She called out, however, “Are any of Mr Briggs's servants below?”\n“Anan!” answered the boy, who came to the foot of the stairs, with a knife in one hand and an old shoe, upon the sole of which he was sharpening it, in the other, “Does any one call?”\n“Yes,” said Cecilia, “I do; for I could not find the bell.”",
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        "Expressing incomprehension or doubt; often requesting repetition or clarification, especially as an as an interrogative."
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        "(obsolete) Expressing incomprehension or doubt; often requesting repetition or clarification, especially as an as an interrogative."
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      "ipa": "/əˈnæn/"
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  "etymology_text": "Variant form of anon (“in a moment; presently”).",
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Patrick O'Brian, Clarissa Oakes [historical fiction, set circa 1812]",
          "text": "'You are familiar with the Polynesian, I collect?' asked Stephen.\n'Anan, sir?'\n'The South Sea language.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume III",
          "text": "“Anan!” cried Briggs, recovering his temper from the perplexity of his understanding, at a discourse to which his ears were wholly unaccustomed, “what d'ye say?”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume II",
          "text": "“I am quite assommé, Sir,” returned the Captain, “to disturb you, but I must really hint you don't comprehend me; the ladies are extremely inconvenienced by these sort of sights [a man without his wig], and we make it a principle they should never be accablées with them.”\n“Anan!” cried Mr Briggs, staring.\n“I say, Sir,” replied the Captain, “the ladies are quite au desespoir that you will not cover your head.”\n“What for?” cried he, “what's the matter with my head? ne'er a man here got a better! very good stuff in it; won't change it with ne'er a one of you!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume I",
          "text": "She called out, however, “Are any of Mr Briggs's servants below?”\n“Anan!” answered the boy, who came to the foot of the stairs, with a knife in one hand and an old shoe, upon the sole of which he was sharpening it, in the other, “Does any one call?”\n“Yes,” said Cecilia, “I do; for I could not find the bell.”",
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        "Expressing incomprehension or doubt; often requesting repetition or clarification, especially as an as an interrogative."
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        "(obsolete) Expressing incomprehension or doubt; often requesting repetition or clarification, especially as an as an interrogative."
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      "ipa": "/əˈnæn/"
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