n.
Function: adverb
Date: before 12th century
1 obsolete : WHY
2 : in what respect : HOW < what does he care>
3 ― used to introduce prepositional phrases in parallel construction or a prepositional phrase that expresses cause and usually has more than one object ― used principally before phrases beginning with with < what with unemployment increasing> < what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk ― Shakespeare>