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- abbreviation
perhaps (usually in scholarly contexts)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In both of those cases, authorities said, local extremists, perh aps with some tentative, but mysterious contacts to Pakistan or elsewhere in the Islamic world, managed to recruit themselves, brainwash themselves, and arm themselves for a series of deadly bombings.
Web of Terror 2007
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Obs.; recent examples might perh. be found, but the use is now regarded as incorrect.
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The Oxford English Dictionary labels that etymology "perh." (that is, perhaps), but its etymologists have no competing explanations to offer.
Word Fugitives 2004
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The Oxford English Dictionary labels that etymology "perh." (that is, perhaps), but its etymologists have no competing explanations to offer.
Word Fugitives 2004
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[Of uncertain origin: perh.var. of dirk sb., infl by Dick sb.]
Hall of Flame 2003
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[Of uncertain origin: perh.var. of dirk sb., infl by Dick sb.]
Hall of Flame 2003
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" The second is the pastry-clad dish, with this curious and spurious-looking etymology: "Prob. identical w. prec., perh. because the miscellaneous contents of a pie are comparable with the miscellaneous objects collected by magpies.
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[Of uncertain origin: perh.var. of dirk sb., infl by Dick sb.]
Hall of Flame 2003
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[Of uncertain origin: perh.var. of dirk sb., infl by Dick sb.]
Hall of Flame 2003
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[Of uncertain origin: perh.var. of dirk sb., infl by Dick sb.]
Hall of Flame 2003
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