woulda

Etymology
Eye dialect form of a of.

Contraction

 * You woulda told him the truth.
 * You woulda told him the truth.

Usage notes
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.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) would