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Also in form efDev. 1. In phr. (i) if Goddil, an exclamation: if God will; (2) if I can speak, an expression used in correcting some slip of the tongue ; (3) if I know, I don't know ; (40 if or but, let or hindrance ; (5) if sobeas, — as how, — that, or if so being, an intensitive of ' if
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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