woulda

Eye dialect form of a reduction of would have.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdə/

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• Rhymes: -ʊdə

woulda

1. (colloquial) Contraction of would have.

   You woulda told him the truth.

Like other similarly formed contractions, speakers only use woulda to replace the modal sense of would have, i.e. where have precedes a past participle: We woulda come if you'd called. They do not use it to replace would followed by the verb have used lexically, e.g. *We woulda a reason. (We would have a reason would be contracted to We'd have a reason instead.) See also gonna.

• woulda, coulda, shoulda

Category:English contractions

From English would.

woulda

1. would

   Gyal, mi cyaan believe yuh woulda do dat to mi.

   Girl, I can't believe you would do that to me.