perhappenstance
advEtymology Blend of perhaps + happenstance.
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Humorous, Nonstandard, Rare Perhaps.
- "Shove it," Sam concluded, and then went out, but came in soon, from the numbing cold of the Iranian plain, where he had been assistant-in-the-way in a half-cracked but hell-bent search for the elusive and abominable, so-called, snowman, or a facsimile reasonably thereof, perhappenstance, sponsored by a genial Texas oilman who was bored with searching just underground, and wanted to get into something deeper, or higher, depending upon the depletion of his resources, his mind among them.1976 Spring, George W. Smyth, “Bending Hell”, in South Dakota Review, volume 14, number 1, Vermillion, S.D.: University of South Dakota, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:
- and just perhappenstance why shouldn;t^([sic]) YOU 'get over it' and stop supporting plagarism?^([sic])2001 February 23, JnyVee., “Eminem Bites”, in rec.audio.pro (Usenet):
2 more examples
- Or perhappenstance, the Three Stooges?2003 December 13, Coin Saver, “F/A barber quarter”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet):
- Morgan probably ran away at age fourteen to live adrift in the cities, perhappenstance to dine exclusively on Twinkies, a recreational breakfast food known to the state of California to induce criminal behaviors.2004, Bernard M. Patten, The Blood of a Million Christs, Bookman, →ISBN, page 126:
- Related terms
- mayhaps, perhappen