Why"-not` (?), n.

A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.

[Obs.]

When the church Was taken with a why-not in the lurch. Hudibras.

This game . . . was like to have been lost with a why-not. Nugae Antiq.

 

© Webster 1913.

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