mebbe

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mebbe (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of maybe.
    Mebbe he tried to imitate Dick's tone of voice and told us it was raining.
    • 1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars:
      Mebbe the Don wants to pay a sociable call on our ladies. Mebbe his gang is some hungry, as usual.
    • 1915, Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger‎:
      Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.
    • 1929, Edith Wharton, Hudson River Bracketed:
      "I thought mebbe there was something wrong at the Willows," he said.
    • 2013 April 22, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Selected Poems (Timeless classic)‎, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      “Well then, it's Granny speaking: 'I dunnow!
      Mebbe I'm wrong to take it as I do.
      There ain't no names quite like the old ones though,
      Nor never will be to my way of thinking. […]

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