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guessn.

Brit. /ɡɛs/, U.S. /ɡɛs/
Forms: Middle English–1600s gesse, (Middle English ges, 1500s geasse), 1500s Scottish gaiss, 1500s–1600s guesse, 1500s–1700s ghesse, 1500s– guess.
Etymology: < guess v.; compare Middle Dutch gisse (Dutch gis).
1. The action of guessing; an act of guessing, a conjecture, rough estimate; a supposition based on uncertain grounds. by guess: at haphazard, by rough estimation instead of calculation or measurement; by conjecture, without having proofs; †also at, in, up, upon guess; by guess and by God (or Godfrey) (slang, originally Naval slang): (to steer) at hazard without a set course or without the guidance of landmarks; †after (by, to) my guess: as I estimate; †without guess: assuredly; †the guess of the hand: a rough estimate of the weight of something taken into the hand; my guess is or it is my guess: I am tolerably sure; to miss one's guess (U.S.), to be wrong in one's assumption; you have another guess coming: you are mistaken; your guess is as good as mine: a phrase used to indicate uncertainty about facts or circumstances or about the outcome of a set of events; anybody's guess (see anybody pron. and n. Phrases 2); anyone's guess (see anyone pron. 1).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun]
ettlingc1225
guessc1330
guessing1340
conjecting1382
cast1519
surmising1526
conjecturation1533
conjecture1535
foreguessing1548
speculation1575
estimation1598
conjecturing1643
guesswork1725
guesstimation1937
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun] > a conjecture, guess
guessc1330
aimc1450
conjecturea1527
guessing1535
foreguessing1548
fact1566
conjectural1579
surmise1593
speculation1796
shot1840
guesstimate1936
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly
into uncertain1382
uncertainlya1387
at adventure (also adventures)c1390
at or on six and sevena1398
auntersa1450
at all adventure (also adventures)1485
by hab or by nab1530
at rovers (rarely rover)c1531
hab or nab1542
hitty-missy1553
rovingly1583
haphazard1600
random1619
unsight, unseena1627
happy-be-lucky1633
cross and pile1648
temerariously1669
happy-go-lucky1672
à tort et à travers1749
randomly1765
chance-medley1822
haphazardly1832
willy-nilly1908
by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase]
to miss the cushiona1529
to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546
to pray without one's beads1641
to have the wrong end of the stick?1793
to bark up the wrong tree1832
the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834
to have another think coming1896
you have another guess coming1935
to be off the beam1941
blow1943
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > expressions of doubt [phrase]
don't (you) be too (also so) sure1731
I don't rightly know1741
not necessarily1886
where do we go from here?1917
your guess is as good as mine1939
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability > instance of
uncertainty1619
peradventure1627
casualty?1677
anybody's guess1893
guess1958
uncontrollable1977
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 321 Þe kynge's oste at gesse in þe Est mad lardere, Of tounes & hamelesse, of granges & garner.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 421 I nam nouȝte shryuen some tyme but if sekenesse it make, Nouȝt tweies in two ȝere and thanne vp gesse I schryue me.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 211 For if a king shall upon gesse Withoute verray cause drede, He may be liche to that I rede.
a1400–50 Alexander 3552 If gomes be gouerners of gods þan mai þi gesse worth.
c1400 Rom. Rose 2817 Thy Ioye shal double, withoute gesse, Whan thou thenkist on hir semlinesse.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 58 To keep trewe weight, and selle peper by gesse..it accordith nought.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 123 Then must we go eest After my ges.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 281/1 We maye haue also a greate geasse therat.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. i. sig. C.iijv I bring hir a ring, with a token in a cloute, And by all gesse, this same is hir house out of doute.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiii. 24 Thow lychtleis all trew properteis Off luve express, And markis quhair nevir styme thow seis, Bot hittis be gaiss.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1627/2 Soone after (by gesse) fiue of the clocke [etc.].
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Arcadia (1598) sig. Ss1 Passing all ghesse, whence into me should fly So mazde a masse.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 717 Being only weighed by the gesse of the hande, it seemeth much heauier.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxix. sig. E3 They looke into the beauty of thy mind, And that in guesse they measure by thy deeds. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 3 I cannot, by the progresse of the Starres, Giue guesse how neere to day. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) Heere is the guesse [1608 quesse] of their [sc. the enemy's] true strength and Forces.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiii. 217 The Fame is antedated..being related at guesse before 'twas acted.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. xlviii 'Tis ghesse, not full perswasion.
1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 46 By which you may have some ghess of the other rates.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xiii. 87 A small Receiver, capable of containing (by guess) about a pound and a half of Water.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 304 Trees, not so long liv'd as elsewhere, if by the decayed Trunks any guess may be made.
1708 J. Swift Elegy on Partridge in Wks. (1755) II. i. 158 Mr. Bickerstaff spoke altogether by guess, and knew no more what will happen this year, than I did myself.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 424 I confess, That human science is uncertain guess.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 127 By my Guess it could not be less than Fifteen or Twenty Leagues of.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 239 Mere Guess, Supposition, and Possibility, when opposed to historical Evidence, prove nothing.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. x. 93 I was, to my Guess, five Weeks in the Vault or Cavern.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 95 By my guess we should be upon Crackskull common.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 23 Apr. (1979) I. 465 It is worth while to send You a riddle, you make such a Variety of Guesses.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 15 May (1941) 52 I have a guess the best gamecocks would call a truce if a handful or two of oats were scattered among them.
1842 W. Arnot Mem. J. Halley v. 304 Every effort of indolence to do a thing by guess..was sure to meet with an instant reproof.
1846 E. A. Poe N. P. Willis in Wks. (1864) III. 28 All this must be considered as mere guess on my part.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiii. 294 The inductive guess precedes experiment.
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 99 No care to guide old Droug, he knows his way by guess, Once start him on the road.
1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 344 The discovery of an universal law is always a guess on the part of the imagination, made possible by a knowledge of facts.
1909 J. C. Lincoln Keziah Coffin vii. 104 If ever a craft was steered by guess and by godfrey, 'twas that old hooker of Zach's t'other night.
1916 T. Wolfe Let. Sept. (1958) 4 I hope I will do well in all my studies and my guess is I'll have to ‘bone’ on math.
1921 Sat. Rev. 21 May 413/2 Governor Miller, who is responsible for the new legislation, seems to have missed his guess, if he means business.
1930 J. C. Ransom God without Thunder xi. 231 It is my guess, in brief, that the scientists, with their Tables No. 2, hope to have, in the first place, a means of predicting Tables No. 1.
1931 W. G. Carr (title) By Guess and by God.
1931 R. Graves Poems 1926–30 41 He lurches here and there by guess And God and hope and hopelessness.
1935 Punch 3 July 12/2 If you think I am fool enough to be hoodwinked.., you have another guess coming.
1936 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest xviii. 199 You're wot I calls a well-plucked 'un... And, w'en you're older, an overdose of sex appeal, or I miss my guess.
1939 A. Derleth Let. 29 Dec. in Notes & Queries (1965) July 268/2 My guess, naturally, is the latter—but I would value a letter from you setting down your own convictions.]
1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. vi. 337 If you think that's your doing..you've got another guess coming.
1939 I. Baird Waste Heritage xxii. 310 Your guess is as good as mine.
1943 N. Balchin Small Back Room xii. 135 ‘The question is, what will happen then?’..‘Your guess is as good as mine.’
1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. v. 130 ‘Who's going to get in?’..‘Your guess is as good as mine.’
1957 E. Whate Press on Regardless i. 10 We drove by guess and by God, and the rest of that journey is best left to the obscurity which shrouded it at the time.
1958 I. Murdoch Bell xx. 246 My guess is that once you start to fight you'll know you can't stay with Paul.
1965 F. L. Utley in Bessinger & Creed Medieval & Linguistic Stud. 308 If I don't go down into history as the martyr President I miss my guess.
1967 Observer 30 Apr. 29/3 Will bloomers and shorts catch on? My guess is that they will.
1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink vi. 47 ‘Did he give you the impression of being honest.’ Evans allowed himself a shrug. ‘Your guess is as good as mine, sir.’
1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 121/1 It is not certain that there are any moonquakes, though Dr. Latham says he will miss his guess if the passive seismic experiment records none.
2. The expressions anotherguess adj., otherguess adj. and adv., etc., in which -guess is a corruption of -gates, have given rise to phrases in which guess appears as an attributive noun or adjective, with the sense ‘kind of’.
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1825 Blackwood's Mag. 18 43/2 Oho! is it so indeed?..why, then, that's a different guess-story altogether, ship~mate.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 668 Every one..knows what guess-sort of wiseacre France gave birth to in the person of that algebraical gentleman.
1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. xiii. 265 Not look at a woman?..why, what sort of a guess world would this be without petticoats?
1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 423 He had no guess-idea of what bemused his vision.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as guess-aim, guess-monger.
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1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 266 Taking the best guess-aim I could.
1892 Skeat in Notes & Queries 8th Ser. I. 10 The day of the etymological guess-mongers will be gone for ever.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

guessadj.

Brit. /ɡɛs/, U.S. /ɡɛs/
Forms: Also guest, guessed.
Etymology: Compare Low German güst of the same meanings.
dialect.
Of a cow or ewe: Barren; temporarily barren (see quots.). Also, not yielding milk.
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1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms 31 (E.D.S.) Guess-cow, a barren cow.
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May vi. 103 Guess-Cows..are those that did not stand to their Bulling last Year.
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 29 They [Cows] are not always in Milk, as being in Calf, or that they go, what we in Hertfordshire call, guess, or dry.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 ii. 363 I get far fewer ‘guest’ or barren ewes.
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 723/2 Guessed ewes (Lin.), not seasonably in lamb.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

guessv.

Brit. /ɡɛs/, U.S. /ɡɛs/
Forms: Past tense and past participle guessed /ɡɛst/. Forms: Middle English gesce, gese, gessen, Middle English–1600s gess(e, Middle English gessyn, Middle English–1600s ges, (1500s geasse), 1500s–1600s guesse, 1500s–1700s ghess(e, 1500s– guess. past tense and past participle Middle English gest, 1500s ghest, 1500s–1700s guest.
Etymology: Middle English gessen, cognate with the synonymous Middle Low German, Middle Dutch and modern Dutch, Frisian gissen (Middle Dutch also gessen, North Frisian gezzen, gedsen), Middle Swedish gissa, gitza, Swedish gissa, Middle Danish gidze, gitse, getze, Danish gisse; modern Icelandic has a derivative form gizka.The relation between the various forms is obscure. According to Tamm Svenskt Etym. Ordb. the Scandinavian forms are adopted < Low German gissen , a phonetic alteration of gessen (compare Low German hissen , variant of hessen , < High German hetzen to hunt). It seems, however, more probable that the Swedish and Danish forms are native, as the English word can hardly be referred to any other than a Scandinavian source. The word cannot well descend from an Old English form = Low German gissen , as the initial would then have been y (Middle English ȝ). The only remaining possibility would be that it was adopted from continental Low German, but there is nothing in the nature of the meaning to account for its having come from that source in or before the early 14th cent. The forms may represent one, or probably more than one, of the Germanic types *gitisôjan , *gatisôjan , *gessôjan , *gissjan ; in any case the word is a derivative of the root of get v.; compare Old Norse geta v., to get, guess, geta weak feminine a guess. In the 14th cent. the word was the usual rendering of Latin aestimare, the influence of which probably affected some of the early senses.
1.
a. transitive. To form an approximate judgement of (size, amount, number, distance, etc.) without actual measurement or calculation; to estimate. Sometimes with clause as object.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)]
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ween971
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weigha1200
deem?c1225
judge?c1225
guessc1330
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aretc1386
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ponder?a1400
adjudgec1440
reckonc1440
peisec1460
ponderate?a1475
poisea1483
trutinate1528
steem1535
rate?1555
sense1564
compute1604
censure1605
cast1606
cense1606
estimate1651
audit1655
state1671
balance1692
esteem1711
appraise1823
figure1854
tally1860
revalue1894
lowball1973
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > conjecture, guess [verb (transitive)] > form approximate judgement
guessc1330
conjecturea1513
guesstimate1942
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > approximately
guessc1330
guesstimate1942
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7672 Fra þe poynt of þe erthe tille Saturnus Þe heghest planete may be gesced þus.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1115 No man coude preyse or gesse Of hem the valewe or richesse.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings iii. 8 A puple with oute eende þat mai not ben noumbrid & gessed for multitude.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 207 Great richesse Wel more than they couthen gesse.
a1400–50 Alexander 5512 Þare was a miȝti montayne at to þe mone semed He gessis it gaynir to god þan to þe grounde vndire.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. v. 76 The gretenes therof ne couthe I not gesse, nor acounte.
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 191 I saw this person standing within a Pike or two length as I can guesse it.
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 258 As near as can be ghessed.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 162 That they who had Life..could nothing nigh measure or guess Time as that [glass] did.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 39/1 How many people do you guess might follow you to Hougly, expecting employment?
1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. II. 38 Boiled down to a proper consistence, which they guess by the eye, and by the touch.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. ii. iv. 207 A statue..cut out of a rock, which has been guessed at different heights.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 277 The eye being liable to be grossly deceived in guessing the direction of a perpendicular.
absolute.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 205 The ferth day formest next Palmesonenday, þe tyme, as I gest, R. ȝede to play.c1386 G. Chaucer Frankl. T. 684 Mo than a thousand stories as I gesse Koude I now telle.c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §40. 49 I..sette the point of A in the wex on my label, as euene as y kowde gesse ouer the Ecliptik lyne.c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1735 So euene were they chosen for to gesse.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. iii. 37 The Ottamites..Haue there inioynted them with an after Fleete. 1 Sen. I, so I thought: how many, as you guesse?1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 103 It lay as near as we could guess ENE. and WSW.1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 478 Our present strength, I guess, is about seven hundred.
†b. With numbers. to guess: approximately, ‘or thereabouts’. Obsolete.
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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 150 Þer duellid R. schip þre daies to gesse.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 270 Thai war, to gess, fiffty thousand.
†c. To add (an ingredient) without exact measurement. Obsolete.
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c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 385 iij piluls of cupresse, Or leef of box an hondful, therto gesse.
†2. intransitive. To take aim (const. to). Also, to purpose, aim, direct oneself to do something. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > intention > intend [verb] > aim to do or be intent on doing
guess?c1320
to be out1887
to set out1888
?c1320 K. Horn (Harl., ed. Ritson) 1187 Horn..seide he wolde gesse [older texts agesce, agesse] To aryve at Westnesse.
a1400 Coer de L. 4482 When the Crystene myght draw hem tylle, To shete the arweblasteres hem dresse, And the archeres to hem gesse.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 561/2 I gesse, I mente or ayme to hytte a thynge that I shote or throwe at, je esme.
†3. transitive. To esteem, account, reckon: with object and complement. Obsolete.
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1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3934 Þan es a day of pardon to gesce Mare worthy þan alle þis worldis riches.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 229 Poul..biddiþ..bi oure life þat man have mater to gesse us as mynystris of God.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xi. 16 To whom shal I gesse this generacioun lichy?
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xv. 28 The prophecie is fulfild that seith, And he is gesside, or ordeyned, with wickide men.
a1400 Prymer (E.E.T.S.) 64 Gessist þou it worþi to opene þin iȝen on siche a man?
a1400–50 Alexander 4495 Ȝe..gesse wele as many gods as growis in him membris.
†4. To think, judge, suppose; with clause as object. Obsolete. (Cf. sense 6.)
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > suppose, surmise [verb (transitive)]
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readOE
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c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 422 As we gessen þat þis man þat holdiþ wel cristis lawe is a leme of hooly chirche,..So we gessen of an-oþer man þat reuersiþ cristis lawe, þat he is a leme of þe fend.
c1380 J. Wyclif Acts viii. 20 Thou gessidist the ȝifte of God for to be had..by money.
a1400 Prymer (E.E.T.S.) 64 Gessist þou not [L. putasne] þat a deed man schal lyue aȝen?
a1400–50 Alexander 2905 Þe Persyns..gesses him to be gode for glori of his wedis.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xxiii. 23 Gessist thou [L. putasne] whether Y am God of niȝ, seith the Lord, and not God afer?
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 48 Hector Thebanus..wen he went to vse philosophie at Athenis, he kest a wey a gret peise of gold; he gessid þat he miȝt not haue to gidre, riches & vertu.
5. To form an opinion or hypothesis respecting (some unknown state of facts), either at random or from indications admittedly uncertain; to conjecture. Const. by, from.
a. with clause or indirect question as object; also with object and infinitive, and with adverbs so, otherwise, in lieu of clause.
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1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 103 For I can nought my selfe gesse, Which is the best unto my chois.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. lxxxvii. 872 It [sc. smaragdus] helpeþ hem þat vsen to dyuyne and gesse what schal bifalle.
a1400–50 Alexander 2071 And wele he geses be þe graynes ȝoure gomes ere fele.
c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1386 I trow, as I gesse, At Vertu hys castell ye may soone hym fynde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 561/2 Gesse what we were talkynge of afore you came in a dores.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos i. B j I gesse Some goddesse thou art, and Phebus bright thy brother is.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) xxiii. 2 If gentle blude ingendrit be by baggis, Then culd I ges vho wer a gentle Jhone.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures x. 30 One amongst them, whom we guessed to be the chiefest of them.
1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 42 Acast. And went your Maid to bed too? Mon. My Lord, I guess so.
1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 277 I guess it to have been a Piece of the Chapell.
1723 R. Millar Hist. Propagation Christianity II. viii. 367 We may ghess what sort of Christians these Popish Proselytes were.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. vii. 93 At present we can onely guess rather than know what Caesar will do.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 135 What it is can employ them all the day is not easy to guess.
a1806 S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 292 They were effected by what you might the least guess to be the instruments of Providence.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 4 You would scarcely have guessed, from her appearance, that she was more than seven or eight-and-twenty.
a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 101 We may guess when its growth began.
b. with simple object.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > conjecture, guess [verb (transitive)]
readOE
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a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 57/1 Whose iugement semeth me somwhat like, as though men should gesse ye bewty of one longe before departed.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints v O Rome! thee let him see, In case thy greatnes he can gesse in harte.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. F2 You may gesse the inward mind by the outward apparel.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 707 Some ghessing one thing and some another.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 67 His Water..cleer like Well-water, insomuch as I could never have guest a burning Feaver.
1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iv. 50 This I guess, but saw it not, because I came too late.
1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant iii. 34 Beware; for by my own, I guess your Passion.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation i. 31 We may guess with plausibility what we cannot anticipate with confidence.
1844 E. B. Barrett Romaunt of Page in Poems I. 159 I..little guessed the end.
†c. with object and complement. Obsolete.
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1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. B3v Spaines choyse embassador..for soe I gesse thee.
1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers iii. vii. 47 Your boy? I should have guess'd him for your father.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iii. v. 89 in 3 New Playes (1655) Yet by your language I ghess you a Gentleman.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 290 For on som message high they guessd him bound. View more context for this quotation
d. absol. and elliptical, chiefly in parenthetic use. (The early examples may possibly belong to 4.)
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1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1136 Yhernyng of eghe, als I can gese Falles to worldes rychese.
c1460 R. Roos tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy 173 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems 57 In hir failed nothyng, as I koude gesse.
c1520 Interl. Beauties Women A ij b Thys lute is out of tune now as I ges.
1562 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 128 Sheryffz off cetyes ar, I ges, for eleccion and for retornes.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. H3 Carot, that is, redde roote: as some Antiquaries gesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 22 Sil. Oh Corin, that thou knew'st how I do loue her. Cor. I partly guesse: for I haue lou'd ere now. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 60 Discouer more at large what cause that was, For I am ignorant, and cannot guesse . View more context for this quotation
1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iii. iii. sig. Gv Theod. ..whither went shee? speake. Phil. As they ghesse, to the lawrell groue.
1736 T. Gray Let. 15 July in Corr. (1971) I. 46 You..will prefer a picture of still-life to the realities of a noisy one; &, as I guess, will learn to imitate them.
1818 P. B. Shelley Marenghi xii He went Alone, as you may guess, to banishment.
1819 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 535 He had store Of friends and fortune once, as we could guess From his nice habits and his gentleness.
6. I guess: sometimes used, with playful moderation of statement, in reference to what the speaker regards as a fact or a secure inference. Hence colloquial, originally in the northern U.S. (sometimes with omission of the pronoun) = ‘I am pretty sure’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince someone [phrase] > express conviction
to speak (also tell) one's conscience1549
I guess1692
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. § 28 Once in Four and Twenty Hours, I think, is enough; and no Body, I guess, will think it too much.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §59 If this were constantly observ'd, I guess there would be little need of blows or chiding.
c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding iv. xii. §10 Beyond this I fear our talents reach not, nor are our faculties, as I guess, able to advance.
1776 R. King Life & Corr. (1894) I. 23 I guess the pious Elder would as lieve tarry where he is.
1778 B. Franklin Let. 1 July in Wks. (1888) VI. 195 I write this letter to you, notwithstanding; which I think I can convey in a less mysterious manner, and guess it may come to your hands.
1814 Ld. Byron Diary 8 Apr. ‘I guess now’ (as the Yankees say), that he will yet play them a pass.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 16 I guess..you winna be the waur of a glass of the right Rosa Solis.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 19 Jan. (1939) 72 I guess (as Mathews makes his Yankees say) that we shall not be troubled with visitors, and I calculate that I will not go out at all.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ix. 244 I guess Squire Laurie talks too much.
1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché I. ii. 23 What on airth shall I do?—guess, I'll strap my rasor.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 110 Thet kin' o talk I guess you'll find'll answer to a charm.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham II. xxii I guess those English parties have gone back on Rogers.
1916 A. Huxley Let. 21 Jan. (1969) 89 Say, kiddo, guess you're between the Devil and the W.C.
1927 M. de la Roche Jalna xv. 165 I guess I've just the right amount of brains for that.
1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 46 Py korry she cost the Pakeha thousands and thousands of pounds I guess.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) i. 18 I guess it was a bandicoot, or else a' nole swamp wallaby that died in the lonely scrub.
1959 M. Callaghan in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 5 There's no harm in you talking to Mother if you want to, I guess.
7.
a. intransitive. To form conjectures. (†Const. of.) to guess at: to attempt to estimate conjecturally; to hazard a random or insufficiently founded opinion about; to attempt to solve or discover by conjecture.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)]
divine1362
supposea1393
conjecta1425
guessc1535
rove1551
level1580
conjecture1587
to harp at1611
to venture at1623
to make a shot1840
reach1952
c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. A.iiiv In her sentence..They wyllen gesse in her gay hall.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iv. sig. C6 More then the letter I haue not to ghesse by.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxii. sig. Vu5v Philoclea..ghessed somewhat at Zelmanes mind.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I2v Their gentle sex to weepe are often willing, Greeuing themselues to gesse at others smarts. View more context for this quotation
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 63 Wisards, which by conjectures and casting of lots did ghesse of things to come.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 204 Rosse. Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer, Which shall possesse them with the heauiest sound That euer yet they heard. Macd. Humh: I guesse at it. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. iii. 26 Guesse at her yeares, I prythee. View more context for this quotation
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1480 He is on his birthday..yearely weighed and account kept therof by his Physicians, thereby ghessing at his bodily estate.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xvii. 127 From the understanding of which, you may the better ghesse at the nature of the rest.
1710 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c27 Mar. (1965) I. 23 By what fine gentlemen say, you know it is not easy to guess at what they mean.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 202 The total amount..can only be rudely guessed at.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 62 Vain endeavours to guess at a riddle.
1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 61 There was a change, but spare to guess, Nor let that moment's hope be told.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 23 Would I shirk assurance on each point whereat I can but guess—Does the soul survive the body? [etc.].
b. to keep (a person) guessing: to keep in a state of uncertainty. colloquial (originally U.S.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt [verb (transitive)] > cause doubt
branglea1600
forgive1600
stumble1607
uncertain1614
uncredit1615
disconceita1639
scruple1638
startle1643
stagger1646
unfix1650
inscruple1663
unhinge1719
unconvince1815
unsettle1833
to keep (a person) guessing1896
1896 G. Ade Artie v. 41 When your old college chum gets that letter it'll keep him guessin' where to begin on it.
1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 24 Nov. 1 More doubt is now thrown upon the question whether he will go to Washington at all. The governor seems determined to keep us guessing.
1924 A. C. Maclaren Cricket Old & New xii. 116 A. G. Steel..putting the ball where he liked and keeping the batsman guessing all the time.
1927 M. A. Noble Those ‘Ashes’ 175 Mailey..varied his pace splendidly and had everyone guessing.]
1930 H. Zink City Bosses in U.S. 23 Murphy proceeded with considerable caution, sometimes withdrawing from a position, sometimes forcing it, and altogether keeping his opponents guessing what he would do next.
1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xiii. 124 She always tries to keep me guessing.
8. transitive. ‘To conjecture rightly’ (Johnson); to hit upon the answer to (a question), the solution of (a riddle, †a parable); to discover by conjecture, divine. †Also with out.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > conjecture, guess [verb (transitive)] > correctly
toucha1400
guess1548
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xv. 15–20 Out of one [parable] to haue diuined and gessed [1552 geassed] another.
1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1786/2 Wolfe..partly gessing which Ambassadour he ment.
1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy II. 535 Because it is hard to attaine to that knowledge, he deserves the greater commendations, who takes such a course, that he ghesses it out.
1681 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1826) I. 205 Thomas Lurting may guess the man.
c1718 M. Prior Beauty, a Riddle 37 Your riddle is not hard to read: I guess it.
1783 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 250 I do not pretend to guess precisely their sentiments.
1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. vi. 328 But which is worse..it is not difficult, I think, to guess.
1884 F. J. Child Ballads I. 418/1 Choose comrades that can guess riddles.
absolute.a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iv. 6 An. Why meet him at the gates and re[de]liuer our authorities there? Esc. I ghesse not. View more context for this quotation1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vi. 267 Sure enough it's Barnaby—how did you guess?

Derivatives

guessed adj. (guessed-at)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [adjective] > formed by conjecture
conjectureda1586
guessed1832
speculated1866
1832 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 253 I have observed one thing, and one only, in favour of my guessed-at theory.
1917 J. Masefield Lollingdon Downs 61 The discoverer scans..the guessed-at satellite.
1930 W. H. Auden Poems 26 Areas..Whose guessed at wonders would be worth alleging.
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