Definition of "'twas" []

• Contraction of it was.

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• "Oda subsequently misled to a Parliamentary committee about her hands-on disfigurement of the document, claiming she'd no idea who had doctored the material, then last week - memory miraculously jogged - owned up to the doctoring, suddenly recalling, oh yeah, 'twas me."