Did you perchance mean mayhap?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance
Etymologies
- A misconstruction of mayhap after maybe and perhaps. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“OH MY GOD YOU HAVE FOR A WHILE!! "and i was like" mayhaps "and she was like" OH MY GOD! "and then me and lindsay were going to the corner store for slurpees and jared and trevor were both at the gas station, and trevor was like, hinting to lindsay and she like gave thumbs up and he was like" ALRIGHT! "and now i'm scared.ahhahaha. ohhhh wow.”
“Mantharâs Note: âNow that youâve suffered only a direct page of Ajraâs meanderings, mayhaps youâll trust Manthar when he tells you that you only want the relevant information, not the direct sources from which this lore comes, hm?”
The Codex Continual » Mantharâs Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part I)
“I guess i have strange sense of humor ... or mayhaps my "humor" is a PFD to keep me from drowning in a sea of blatant stupidity.”
“PERIOD. I guess according to the disenters i should have sat and watched this idiot put one 50 cal HP down range within 5 yards of where my buds are changing targets!?! or mayhaps sat and listened to his pathetic excuses and then allowed him to continue on with UNSAFE ways to kill someones else later?!?!”
“Or he's mayhaps expecting a mid-life growth spurt?”
The Washington Post: Brad Pitt's leather pants: Fashionably frumpy?
“Janice Dickinson: The self-proclaimed "first supermodel" is seeking help for addictions to shopping, plastic surgery and prescription drugs and, mayhaps, reality shows?.”
“Doesn't mean you are any of those things in real life, but the better writer you are, the more likely it is that people are going to wonder if you mayhaps have more experience in these arenas than you are letting on.”
“One of the new ProTour teams doing a bit of curation mayhaps......”
“McCain looks like a Batman villain work-in-progress (the Maverick, mayhaps?)”
“Its looking better and better guys … got MORE happening now, giveaways, sponsors mayhaps, freebies, gifts, food, and MAYBE Wii on a huge screen.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Spiderman III Opening…EL Style
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mayhaps’.
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gerwitz's Words
erudite, autodidactic, callipygian, ouroboros, zounds, fie, wabi, sabi, gedankenexperiment, zeitgeist, eliminativism, aether and 157 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Words I rather like
Words herein are those that I like somewhat.
prestidigitation, splendid, badger, custody, adjustable, huzzah, artillery, heavy, quincunx, brummagem, crapulous, fuselage and 20 more...
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thou shalt speak English
thee, thy, thou, thine, thyself, art, hast, mayhaps, good gog, shalt, ye, nay and 6 more...
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As Yet Unrecognized by Merriam-Webster
wordinista, colbertian, uffish, manxome, bandersnatch, mayhaps, antiquintessential, abovepar, frumious, truthiness
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Made-up words
Oh, what fun.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mayhaps.
habcat ive never seen this word used anywhere,until wordnik. I have used it for years, as it came from my head. A combo of maybe and perhaps, nothing mysterious, only word-play. Jun 12, 2009
arby Oh yeah, this is a real word, except it's supposed to be mayhap - see Wikipedia. This is interesting to me as I'd only ever seen/heard it as "mayhaps". As in, "Mayhaps we'll meet again someday." Guess I was listening to illiterates! Sep 27, 2007
seanahan But then it is no longer a sniglet, right? Aug 16, 2007
arby It's only twice as good for being antiquated, that's all. Aug 16, 2007
seanahan How is this different than might? Aug 15, 2007
gerwitz A sniglet of dubious value, but I cannot help myself. Aug 15, 2007