mayhap
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mayhap (ˈmeɪˌhæp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adv | |
| an archaic word for perhaps | |
| [C16: shortened from it may hap] | |
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Mayhap
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
mayhap
1530s, from phrase (it) may hap.
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Example sentences
Mayhap you have seen all this in the papers, little thinking who commanded the detach-ment.
Mayhap the good doctor never thought of that old saying, that the soul shines through the face and lights it.
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