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See also:dontanddönt

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Fromdo +‎-n't.

Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using-s to mark the third-person singular at all.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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don't

  1. donot (negative auxiliary[1])
    I find mom rather bossy today,don't you?
    'Can I leave?' 'Don't'.
    Don't be such a nuisance! For Christ's sake, do be quiet already!.
    • 1646, John Hall,Poems, Cambridge,page55:
      Far be 't from lust; such wildfire ne'er / Shall dare to lurk or kindle here; / Diviner flames shall in our fancies roll, / Whichdo n't depress / To earthliness, / But elevate the soul.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      “Idon't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble.[…]”
    • 1980, The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records:
      Don't stand,Don't stand so,Don't stand so close to me.
    • 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Take No Prisoners", Megadeth,Rust in Peace.
      Don't ask what you can do for your country / Ask what your country can do for you
    • 2022 September 16,Joe Biden, quotee, 0:00 from the start, inPresident Biden warns Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons: "Don't. Don't. Don't."‎[2],CBS News, archived fromthe original on16 September 2022:
      Scott Pelley: As Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner, and I wonder Mr. President what you would say to him if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons. / Biden:Don't.Don't.Don't. It would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.
  2. (now nonstandard)doesnot
    • 1649, William Bridge, edited by William Greenhill, John Yates, and William Adderley,The Works of William Bridge, Sometime Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridg: Now Preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth, volume 1, London: Peter Cole,page85:
      Blessed are the poor in spirit, saies he.Blessed are those that mourn. Hedon't say, Blessed are those that rejoyce; or, Blessed are those that have the Assurance of Gods love; or, Blessed are those that are strong in Grace: No, but doest thou know a poor weak, Christian, a mourning soul like a Dove of the Valleys; saies the Lord, I blesse him.
    • 1717,The Tryal of Francis Francia, for High Treason, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey; On Tuesday Jan. 22. 1716. Perused by the Right Honourable The Lord Chief-Baron Bury: And also by The Council for His Majesty, and for the Prisoner., London: D. Midwinter,page31:
      L. C. Baron. Thatdon't alter the Pronunciation. It is the same Name.
    • 1868–1869,Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter II, inLittle Women: […],(please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.:Roberts Brothers,→OCLC:
      My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he’s very proud anddon’t like to mix with his neighbors.
    • 1882, W. S. Gilbert,An entirely original fairy opera, in two acts, entitled, Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri, London: Chappell & Co,page38:
      [Lord Chancellor] Allow me, as an old equity draftsman, to make a suggestion. The subtleties of the legal mind are equal to the emergency. The thing is really quite simple – the insertion of a single word will do it. Let it stand that every fairy shall die whodon’t marry a mortal, and there you are, out of your difficulty at once!
    • 1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”,Tapestry, Ode Records:
      I sure hope the roaddon’t come to own me.
    • 2000, “Stan”, inEminem (music),The Marshall Mathers LP:
      My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven / But shedon't know you like I know you, Slim, no one does / Shedon't know what it was like for people like us growing up / You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
    • 2012, “She Don't Like the Lights”, inJustin Bieber (music),Believe:
      Shedon't like the flash, wanna keep us in the dark / Shedon't like the fame, baby when we're miles apart
    • 2013, “Highway Don't Care”, inTim McGraw (music),Two Lanes of Freedom:
      The highwaydon't care
    • 2017, “Rico Acid”,Emily Blue (music):
      Lovedon't come easy, I know that itdon't
  3. (African-American Vernacular)Used before an emphatic negative subject.
    Don’t nobody care.
Usage notes
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  • In fixed expressions, especially in children's speech, this word can be used positively,[2] most particularly in the constructionSo don't I in response to a proud statement by the previous speaker.
  • The use ofdon't with the sense ofdoes not seems to be attested first in the 17th century, a time when the use of do as an auxiliary in negative clauses (Do-support) was increasing. Its development may be related to the omission of the suffix -s on the verbsneed anddare when used as auxiliaries in the negative. Another likely analogy was the rhyming wordwon't. Although now nonstandard, it seems not to have been felt as incorrect by some authors of the 18th and 19th centuries.[3] By the second half of the 19th century, however, some writers on grammar were prescribing the use ofdoesn't rather thandon't in this context.[4] Even today,he don't tends to be more acceptable in colloquial speech thanhe say, he make, etc., which are clearly marked as dialectal. "Don't" is often used in place of "doesn't" in songs for meter effect, even by singers who wouldn't ordinarily do so in speech.
Derived terms
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Translations
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do not

Interjection

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don't

  1. Stop!
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interjection

Noun

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don't (pluraldon'tsordon't's)

  1. Chiefly indos and don'ts: something that must or should not be done.
    Antonym:do
    • 1968,Joan Didion, “Slouching towards Bethlehem”, inSlouching Towards Bethlehem:
      Among thedon'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine.
    • Ally Jones, “A Step-By-Step Guide To Delete Tinder & Start Over (& When You Shouldn't)”, inVida Select‎[3]:
      And here’s one universal selfiedon’t - if the setting is your bathroom, or any bathroom for that matter, it has no place in yourTinder lineup. Not hot.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Contraction

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don't

  1. (archaic)Contraction ofdoneit.
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References

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  1. ^Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum,Cliticization vs. Inflection: Englishn’t,Language59 (3), 1983, pp. 502–513
  2. ^So Don't I
  3. ^Joly, André (1990), "He don't / Don't he ? in the History of English : a Study in Psychosemiology", in Roux, Louis (director, CIEREC),L'Organisation du sens, domaine anglais: recueil en l'honneur de Jean Lavédrine, pages 125-137.
  4. ^Patricia T. O’Conner; Stewart Kellerman (2023), “Was ‘it don’t’ once good English?”, inGrammarphobia‎[1]
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