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mayhap, adv. Now arch., rhetorical and dial.|meɪˈhæp, ˈmeɪhæp|
Also 8 mehap, 8–9 mayhaps.
[The phrase (it) may hap (see hap v.), taken as one word.]
Perhaps, perchance.
a1536Interl. Beauty & Gd. Prop. Women A v, May hap ye stomble Quod he on the trewth, as many one doth. 1575Gamm. Gurton v. ii. (Manly), There is a thing you know not on, may hap. 1706S. Centlivre Basset-Table iv, Sir Richard, mehap a woman may not like me. 1718Motteux Quix. (1733) III. 67 I'll trust no longer to Rewards, that mayhaps may come late, and mayhaps not at all. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxii, Mayhap she's hungry. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 37 Or hast thou mayhap wandered wide? 1900Hope in Yorks. Arch. Jrnl. XV. 300 Pins or hooks, mayhap for hanging curtains from. |