Meaning of oncet | Babel Free

Definitions

Once.

Southern-US, nonstandard, not-comparable

Examples

“If we could see⟳ the last⟳ of that man, Didenhover, oncet, I'd take⟳ hold⟳ of the plough myself, and see⟳ if I couldn't make⟳ a living out of it.”

“"I seen 'im oncet, in the spring⟳, I s'pose," said Jim, "what there was left of 'im.”

“Jest tuk the best rooms in that new hotel, got a hoss and buggy, dressed ourselves, you and me, fit to kill⟳, and made them Fort people take⟳ a back seat in the Lord's Tabernacle, oncet for all.”

“Why, Judith, Granny Peavey, our maw's mother, told us oncet about a dumb supper that her and two other gals made when she was but sixteen year old, and her sweetheart away from her in Virginny, and she didn't know⟳ whar he was at, an' they brought her tales agin him."”

“He meets oncet in a while people, Mr. Redman; while, with us, what is it?”

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