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not adverb full form when an auxiliary verb or form of copula be is contracted to the subject (thus he + is + not => he’s not).

1927 Justus Peter Pocket 40 I’ll not spend the hundred cents for candy. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I’ve not got very much yet.  Ibid (Deep Creek NC) That’s not a bear. Hit’s a wildcat. c1950 Adams Grandpap 39 He knowed if they killed his bull that he’d not get anything more to eat an’ that would soon be the end of him. 1974-75 McCracken Logging 1:16 That’s not a cow brute’s skull. That’s a human skull. 1989 Landry Smoky Mt Interviews 181 You'll not find no John [Ogle] blood around Maryville. 1989 Matewan OHP-22 He’ll get me by letting things out when he's not home. 1999 Axtell Moonshine Making 18 I’ve not heard tell of poisonous liquor.

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