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what'd

American  
[wuht-id, hwot-, hwuht-, wot-, hwuhd, wuhd] / ˈwʌt ɪd, ˈʰwɒt-, ˈʰwʌt-, ˈwɒt-, ʰwʌd, wʌd /
  1. contraction of what did: What'd you say?


Usage

See contraction.

Example Sentences

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“Wait, what’d you say?,” the Grammy-nominated musician asks, according to the video.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

When people ask you where you from, what'd you say?

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024

No matter her productivity, her colleagues seemed to care primarily about the chitchat — what’d you do last weekend, where’d you get that purse?

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

“Forty years I’ve been chasing Sidney, they finally give it to me, what’d they do? They give it to him the same night,” said Washington from the stage.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

But don’t put them in writing. it’d, that’d, there’D, this’d, what’d.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner