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- adverb Contraction of
perhaps .
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Examples
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P'raps Mrs. Wylie doesn't know anything about the spell, and has just got some stupid, common reason for not wanting us to play with the little girl, or p'raps '-- and this was plainly a brilliant idea --' _p'raps_ the spell's put on her without her knowing, and stops her when she begins to speak about it.
Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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"I'm sorry," said Dorothy with a sigh, for she was fond of her little comrade; "but p'raps it's best for Button-Bright to get home; 'cause his folks must be worrying just dreadful."
Love Letters 2010
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Bill, "Well, Miss, it's all along o 'me and my mates bein' out o 'work, yer see, and wantin' to turn an honest penny hanyways we can; so 'avin' 'eard tell as you was a risin' young medical practitioner, we thought as p'raps you wouldn 't mind just a recommendin' of hus as nurses."
Archive 2007-07-01 Peggy 2007
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Bill, "Well, Miss, it's all along o 'me and my mates bein' out o 'work, yer see, and wantin' to turn an honest penny hanyways we can; so 'avin' 'eard tell as you was a risin' young medical practitioner, we thought as p'raps you wouldn 't mind just a recommendin' of hus as nurses."
Victorian Woman Doctors Peggy 2007
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Guess Mr. Amis doesn't think better of anything, IMO; p'raps the guy wasn't thinking at all?
Martin Amis in a This 'n' That Chit-Chat Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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Finally us Devon-folk are considered up to coping with a Starbucks, "yes, my loverrr, I'll have a cafai lardai please, or p'raps one of them mokkercheenose".
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Finally us Devon-folk are considered up to coping with a Starbucks, "yes, my loverrr, I'll have a cafai lardai please, or p'raps one of them mokkercheenose".
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Finally us Devon-folk are considered up to coping with a Starbucks, "yes, my loverrr, I'll have a cafai lardai please, or p'raps one of them mokkercheenose".
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Ming Fails to Impress 5 Live Listeners p'raps he should try and impress 5 dead ones.
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May I request a jerky, soundless Beatles clip next, p'raps Live at Shea stadium, which to my mind is certainly in the Top 10 Beatles concerts...but I don't wanna pull at that thread.
It's like I've come home... annawaits 2006
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