Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal form of
may-be .
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- adverb nonstandard, dialect
maybe
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Examples
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Morgan used to respond well to the sound of the treat can being shaken… mebbe a kan openur?
what doesn’t kill me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Ai finkz mebbe a kawfee-flavured iskreem shaek and sum friez, plz.
Drunk kitteh is drunk. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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To the warmly-expressed thanks of the beneficiaries they would simply answer, "That is nothing; 'mebbe' somebody will do as much for mine when he needs it."
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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"You ain't had a tonic fur quite a spell an 'mebbe 'twould do you good."
Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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"But you'll be so rich," sighed Tess, "an 'mebbe'll be awful busy."
The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912
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Let him whose own enunciation is chemically free from localism or slovenliness cast the first stone even at "mebbe" and
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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To the warmly-expressed thanks of the beneficiaries they would simply answer, “That is nothing; 'mebbe' somebody will do as much for mine when he needs it.”
Memories Beers, Fannie A. 1888
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An 'mebbe 'twould comfort the old woman some, after all the trouble I've made her.
Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881
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I thought the cat heard what I said when I talked to her, and if I picked a flower I kissed it, for "mebbe" the flower liked to be kissed.
Aunt Madge's Story Sophie May 1869
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"Yes, I'm only a woman, John, an 'mebbe' tain't a woman's place.
The Fourth Watch 1910
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