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ˈmebbe, ˈmebby
colloq. and dial. variants of may-be, maybe (see E.D.D.).
1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. vi. 65 Mebby I'll mention where I got them. 1886H. Baumann Londinismen 106/2 Mebbe. 1906W. Churchill Coniston i. x. 119 Mebbe I be, and mebbe I hain't. 1910R. Brooke Let. 8 June (1968) 240 Jacques'll be here about then, mebbe. 1948E. Pound Pisan Cantos (1949) lxxxi. 110 A vacant lot where you'd occasionally see a wild rabbit Or mebbe only a loose one. 1961S. Chaplin Day of Sardine vii. 148 ‘We're goin' to the pictures and mebbe afterwards we'll fill up with some fish and chips. 1972Last Whole Earth Catalog (Portola Inst.) 152/1 I read in Newsweek or somewhere that this is the New Renaissance—Mebbe so. |