aiblins
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- (Northern England) Perhaps, maybe. [Early 17th century.][1]
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 109:
- 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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- ^ 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.
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- “aiblins, adv.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.