"how'll" meaning in English

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Contraction

IPA: /haʊl/
Rhymes: -aʊl Head templates: {{head|en|contraction|head=}} how'll, {{en-cont}} how'll
  1. how will Tags: contraction
    Sense id: en-how'll-en-contraction-stsnnS7S
  2. (US, dialect, dated) will, how about (as a proposal) Tags: US, contraction, dated, dialectal
    Sense id: en-how'll-en-contraction-t8NRZNd7 Categories (other): American English

Download JSON data for how'll meaning in English (1.6kB)

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          "ref": "2004, Morgan Robertson, Sinful Peck",
          "text": "I'm as willing to save life as the next man, but I'm not going to wreck my ship fooling round a reef in the night-time. How'll you get a boat over, anyhow?",
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        {
          "ref": "1863, Harper's Magazine",
          "text": "\"Well, mine ain't,\" said Beatrice; \"I wish she was, that's all; I'd like to change with you; come, how'll you swap?\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1916, James Whitcomb Riley, Hewitt Hanson Howland, The Hoosier Book: Containing Poems in Dialect",
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