"woz" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From was, wuz.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "_dis": "40 22 19 19",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "woz ere"
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Bret Harte, Susy: A Story of the Plains",
          "text": "\"You woz saying,\" said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, \"ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1894, George Egerton, Discords, page 120",
          "text": "'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, page 343",
          "text": "We woz robbed, Brian.",
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      "ipa": "/wəz/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əz"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "was (unstressed)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "woz"
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  "derived": [
    {
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          "ref": "1893, Bret Harte, Susy: A Story of the Plains",
          "text": "\"You woz saying,\" said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, \"ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'",
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          "text": "We woz robbed, Brian.",
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