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Wuthering Heights vocabulary

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Definition:

(Britain, northern) nothing but; only; just

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‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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I ha nobbut work to live by; and wheerever can I go, I who ha worked sin I were no heighth at aw, in Coketown heer?

Charles Dickens. Hard Times (1854)

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