phwatpron.
/fwɒt/, U.S. /fwɑt/ colloquial.
= what pron.In representations of regional and nonstandard speech (chiefly Irish).
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1874 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 23 Apr. 5/1 ‘Phwat hav yez in yer basket,’ sez she.
1882 Harper's Mag. Aug. 484/2 Phwat did I bate him for?
1914 R. Brooke Let. Nov. (1968) 630 ‘How many handkerchiefs have you?’.. ‘How many phwat, sorr?’
1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xvii. 164 But seeing phwat has happened, I can do no other.
1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. 1/1 Phwat? Why 'tis the coach of the Fightin' Oirish, thimsilves!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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