yabblins

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   North Yorkshire dialect: possibly; perhaps

   Yabblins, the weather will clear before the boats return.

Recorded as yabblins in Francis Kildale Robinson's nineteenth-century Whitby glossary and as the northern variant yeblins in Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary. It belongs to the ablins family meaning "perhaps," historically formed from able + the adverbial suffix -lings or -lins; the initial y- occurs in northern forms.

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