英和和英

動詞

musta

1. (colloquial) Contraction of must have.

   He musta guessed. There's no other explanation.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     I ran out the kitchen and down the narrow hallway. I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived. I'd never been invited up there but I had a colorful picture in my little head about how grand it musta been.

使用する際の注意点

Reflecting pronunciation, used when have is an auxiliary rather than main verb.

同意語

• must’ve

参考

• coulda
• hadda
• shoulda
• woulda
• mighta
• oughta

アナグラム

• Ma Tsu, Ma-tsu, Mat-Su, Matsu, Maust, sumat

参照

• "musta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)