Definition of "whatten" [whatten]

• See whaten.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Golly, whatten tunket's yon guy in the mackintosh?"
• ""Well! I'd got a trace of my child -- the missus thought she'd gone to th 'workhouse to be nursed; and there I went -- and there, sure enough, she had been -- and they'd turned her out as she were strong, and told her she were young enough to work -- but whatten kind o' work would be open to her, lad, and her baby to keep?""
• "'And them that pays yo', dun they tell yo 'whatten to do, or whatten not to do wi' the money they gives you in just payment for your pains -- in fair exchange like? '"