dast

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Examples

• He aint dast ter wink his eye skacely, en seem like he gwine ter have swamp agur.

• Say, I'll bet you fellers wouldn't dast jump on a live bear, when he was growling and showing his teeth.

• Why, at MacKenzie's raisin' last year he jist went round foamin' like an old boar and nobody dast say a word to him.

• I didn't dast ter hold 'er, fer I'd 'a' fallen meself, so I jes had to holler at 'er, 'n' be sure that she hollered back.

• "It's why I don't dast to go into business—me that's follered the sea so long," returned the skipper, nursing his aching leg.