aiblins
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aiblins (not comparable)
- (Scotland, northern England) Perhaps, maybe. [Early 17th century.][1]
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.1:
- ‘I'll no say but she may aiblins hae been his honour's Squire Thorncliff's in her day–but she's mine now.’
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.1:
References[edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 5:
