What does hadda mean?

hadda

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English

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had to

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Canadian usage; American usage

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had a

"1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Told him I hadda be on the bus for work and he rode with me."
"If I hadda known, I wouldn't've gone."

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