where'd

[ waird, hwaird ]

/ wɛərd, ʰwɛərd /

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contraction of where did:Where'd you go on your holiday?

contraction of where would:Where'd you like to go?

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usage note for where'd

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How to use where'd in a sentence

If it wasnt for you and your father, Pete, whered we be now?
On Your Mark!|Ralph Henry Barbour
If a shell plunked into that entrance or bust it in whered we be?
Grapes of wrath|Boyd Cable
Whered you get your commission from to pick up a hoss whenever you feel like it?
Friar Tuck|Robert Alexander Wason
Then he peeked out from under the winder shade at the hotel and asked us if wed told anybody whered he been.
Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905|Various

And Myron, with eyes that looked as big and as round as butter-chips, whispered: Whered you come from?
Full-Back Foster|Ralph Henry Barbour