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Definition of Ablins
1. adv. Perhaps.
Definition of Ablins
1. Adverb. (context: Scotland) (alternative form of aiblins) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ablins
1. perhaps [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ablins
Literary usage of Ablins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"Faith, ablins true is that remark, That thou wert ance in Noah's Ark, For every
sage is at a loss, Some plank or timmer there ; To tell whan plonks lay down ..."
2. English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, Helen Child Sargent (1904)
"prêt, abode, waited, endured. ablins, ... ahin. behind, over and above. aiblins.
ablins, perhaps. л i lot h at. Soe at. air, ayre, by air, by ауте, early, ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"... ablins, adv. possibly, probably. ' I ablins might.' Aboil, adv. ' Coming aboil,'
bubbling up. ..."
4. Ingleside Rhaims: Verses in the Dialect of Burns by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1887)
"... Or lived man's years allotted, There's mony a line i' passion penn'd, ablins,
he might have blotted: An', when he came at last to see Death's waters ..."
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