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† ˈmuchwhat, n. and adv. Obs.
[f. much adv. + what pron.]
a. n. Many matters.
b. adv. Greatly; nearly, almost; just; ‘pretty much’, ‘pretty well’. (Very common in the 17th c.)
a.13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1280 Þus þay meled of much-quat, til myd-morn paste.
b.1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxxiii 100 He was by theyr counceyll moch what aduyzed and gyded. 1548Gest Pr. Masse L vj, Notwithstanding..I hertofor haue moch what vehemently gaynsayd the preuie masse. 1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 450 They think of this second Adam, much what as Pelagians of the first. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 138 Their first comming into England was much what about the yeare 1414. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xiv. 148 All things proceed much-what in like manner as before. 1701Collier M. Aurel. (1726) 201 The world in a dream, and the world out on't, will appear much what the same thing. 1796‘Tim Bobbin the 2nd’ Plebeian Politics (1801) 29, I think eawer kese is mitchwhot th' same. 1899B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-Speech 246 Much-what, nearly; almost. For the most part. ‘They are all much-what.’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 388 It was muchwhat indifferent. |