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dunno

contractionnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdʌnəʊ//
  • United Kingdom//dəˈnəʊ//
  • United States//dəˈnoʊ//

An utterance of the word dunno.

contraction

  1. 1

    Variant of do not knowinformalPronunciation spelling of do not know; pronunciation spelling of does not know.

    I dunno the answers to any of those questions, and you dunno and he dunno either.

    "Where'd he go?" / "Dunno."

    Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.

Etymology

Written form of an informal pronunciation of don't know that is a reduction of do not know or does not know.

noun

  1. 1

    An utterance of the word dunno.

Forms

plural
dunnos
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).