Definitions
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- v. Alternative form of might.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- Might.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete or dialectal form of might, preterit of may.
- n. An obsolete or dialectal variant of moth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He "mought" keep us all night, but he'd "ruther not, as we could git a place to stay down the spur."
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"Why, yas, I reckon yo 'mought's well -- but seem's like yo' allus a-wantin 'to gad.
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Or listen to the President while keeping you mought shut.
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The part of Epimetheus mought well become Prometheus, in the case of discontentments: for there is not a better provision against them.
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Queen Elizabeth of England, with bills to sign, but he would always first put her into some discourse of estate, that she mought the less mind the bills.
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Surely Comineus mought have made the same judgment also, if it had pleased him, of his second master, Lewis the
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But it mought be applied likewise to Pluto, taking him for the devil.
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For so much was then subject to demonstration, that the globe of the earth had great parts beyond the Atlantic, which mought be probably conceived not to be all sea: and adding thereto the tradition in
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And hereafter may do for that, as she turnes out: for one mought be loth to part with her, mayhap, so verry soon too; espessially if she was to make the notable landlady your Honner put into my head.
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"Why, to speak de troof, massa, him not so berry well as mought be."
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