whatten

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  1. What. Ireland,Northern-England,Scotland,archaic,dialectal
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Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to Middle English whatkin, whatkyn, but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn), later used in place of bare what.
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