guess

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  1. transitive verb To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
  2. transitive verb To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
  3. transitive verb To form a correct estimate or conjecture of: guessed the answer.
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  • Why should any council actually allow this, well your guess is as good as mine, but Harrow Council did, Harrow council acted in a truly appalling way by allowing this "conference" to take place and then compounded the act by allowing the use of a school to spread the violent and vindictive Religion of Islam —  UP Pompeii
  • Another guess could be the death penalty, but I think that in America you'll always have a pretty sizable contingent for it. —  The Volokh Conspiracy
  • They both flunked Reality 101 so my guess is they are united in unmitigated stupidity, perfect "brain-deadery", and extreme morbidity —  Latest Articles
  • That said, your guess is as good as ours as to how long the current stock might last. —  WoW.com
  • Your guess is as good as ours, but look for line coach —  Thoughts from the Dark Side
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English gessen, probably of Scandinavian origin; see ghend- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also ghess, ghesse; properly gess, early modern English gesse, the u or h (as also in guest, ghost, etc.) being a modern and erroneous insertion, without etymological basis or orthographic value; the word is ult. a deriv. of get, and should be spelled, as formerly, with the same initial elements; from Middle English gessen = Middle Dutch ghissen, Dutch gissen = Middle Low German Low German gissen, guess (cf. D. Low German ver-gissen, guess wrongly), = North Friesic gezze, gedse = Icelandic gizka = Swedish gissa = Danish gisse, guess, conjecture; a secondary form (according to the Icelandic form, orig. reflexive with reflexive suffix -sk, as in English bask, busk, etc.) of get: cf. Icelandic geta, get, also guess, Danish gjette, guess: see get.
  2. Early modern English also ghess, ghesse, gesse; from Middle English gesse = Middle Dutch ghisse, Dutch gis = Middle Low German gisse, a guess; from the verb.
 

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