afterhaps
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]afterhaps pl (plural only)
- (nonce word) subsequent happenings.
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Ivy-Wife' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 139:
- But in my triumph I lost sight
- Of afterhaps.
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Ivy-Wife' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 139: