wuzv.
/wʌz/ colloquial, regional, or nonstandard.
‘Was’.
ΚΠ
1886 F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy xi. 222 The rooms wus locked up 'n' empty.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 16 Some of us wuz always good fer a toon on the concertina.
1945 J. Rhys-Williams Stern Daughter xv. 97 Sister wuz wunnerful good to me back at Wipers in 1917.
1966 Listener 15 Sept. 397/2 We were promised a discussion about the programme on BBC-2's Late Night Line-Up; we wuz robbed, the discussion hardly mentioned the programme at all.
1973 C. Himes Black on Black 168 Mah belly feels lak mah throat wus cut.
1976 Observer 22 Aug. 5 (advt.) Wor lad wuz in a reet steeut.
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