aiblins
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.blɪnz/
Adverb
aiblins (not comparable)
- (Northern England) Perhaps, maybe. [Early 17th century.][1]
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter 1, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- ‘I'll no say but she may aiblins hae been his honour's Squire Thorncliff's in her day–but she's mine now.’
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References
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aiblins”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeblɪnz/, /ˈjɛblɪnz/, /ˈjɪblɪnz/
References
- “aiblins, adv.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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