Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Obs. or Colloq. Scarcely; hardly.
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- adverb dated
scarcely ;hardly
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Examples
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You mout take an 'tah de head off'n dat man an' he wouldn't scasely fine it out.
The Gilded Age, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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You mout take an 'tah de head off'n dat man an' he wouldn't scasely fine it out.
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I couldn't scasely keep fum laughin to heah dat goslin 'talk 'bout you p'tectin' me! "
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