MAYHAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mayhap mean? 

• MAYHAP (adverb)
  The adverb MAYHAP has 1 sense:

1. by chance

  Familiarity information: MAYHAP used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAYHAP (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By chance

Synonyms:

maybe; mayhap; peradventure; perchance; perhaps; possibly

Context example:

it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time

 Context examples 

I thought that mayhap it might be as to who should have this feather-bed of thine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand; if not, ... well, then all men shall know that I have been true to my trust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind as me—playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in his body, like—you wouldn't think it too much, mayhap, to give him one good word?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mas'r Davy, he can remember what she was; you may judge for your own self what she is; but neither of you can't fully know what she has been, is, and will be, to my loving art. I am rough, sir, said Mr. Peggotty, I am as rough as a Sea Porkypine; but no one, unless, mayhap, it is a woman, can know, I think, what our little Em'ly is to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You have said much, my fair lord; and yet, if I may say so, it is somewhat crowded together, so that my Lady Loring can, mayhap, scarce follow it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he can't get food he's bound to look for it, and mayhap he may chance to light on a butcher's shop in time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“There is a mark yonder on the hill,” said he; “mayhap you can discern it.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mayhap he had cause to be bitter against me, for his land was given to the abbey for my upbringing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mayhap you and I—Ah, mechante, mechante!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You rob me first, and now you would come preaching and whining, in search mayhap of another field or two for your priestly friends.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)