<span class="searchmatch">might</span>-<span class="searchmatch">have</span>-<span class="searchmatch">been</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">might</span>-<span class="searchmatch">have</span>-<span class="searchmatch">beens</span>) Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved. 1955 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Glasgow...
<span class="searchmatch">might</span>-<span class="searchmatch">have</span>-<span class="searchmatch">beens</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">might</span>-<span class="searchmatch">have</span>-<span class="searchmatch">been</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">might</span> be From <span class="searchmatch">might</span> + be. Compare <span class="searchmatch">might</span>-<span class="searchmatch">have</span>-<span class="searchmatch">been</span>, would-be. <span class="searchmatch">might</span>-be (not comparable) That <span class="searchmatch">might</span> be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical. 1998...
comparable) <span class="searchmatch">Having</span> a patina. 2008 April 20, Christopher Gray, “The Vestige of What <span class="searchmatch">Might</span> <span class="searchmatch">Have</span> <span class="searchmatch">Been</span>”, in New York Times[1]: The space has <span class="searchmatch">been</span> roughly used...
This form is incorrect and most likely the regular infinitive or the present tense carries the intended meaning. <span class="searchmatch">Might</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">been</span> confused with finnast....
gurgly (comparative more gurgly, superlative most gurgly) Gurgling; like a gurgle. The baby made a gurgly noise that <span class="searchmatch">might</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">been</span> laughter. glurgy...
jealous; suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one <span class="searchmatch">might</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">been</span> replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's...
[…], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 158: We <span class="searchmatch">might</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">been</span>!—these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing;...
spelling) if I <span class="searchmatch">might</span> be so bold <span class="searchmatch">might</span> as well <span class="searchmatch">might</span>-be <span class="searchmatch">might</span> can <span class="searchmatch">might</span> could <span class="searchmatch">might</span>-<span class="searchmatch">have</span>-<span class="searchmatch">been</span> <span class="searchmatch">might</span> should monkeys <span class="searchmatch">might</span> fly out of my butt pigs <span class="searchmatch">might</span> fly so crazy...
jealous; suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one <span class="searchmatch">might</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">been</span> replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's...