spect

• 'spect

aphetic form of expect

• Rhymes: -ɛkt

spect (third-person singular simple present spects, present participle specting, simple past and past participle spected)

1. (colloquial) expect
   • 1871, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple's Flyaway‎:

     "I's growing so big now, mamma," said she, coaxingly, "don't you spect I must have some tea?"

   • 1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories‎:

     Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all," said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.

   • 1922, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921‎:

     We didn' 'spect Marse Wes to bring home a wife whenas he lef', but that ain' no sign that it ain' a mighty fine thing."

   • 1962, “Comin' Home Baby”, in Comin' Home Baby!, performed by Mel Tormé:

     I'm comin' home, I know I'm overdue
     Spect me any day now real soon

   • 2002 September 6, Richard Meltzer, “Autumn Rhythm”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     With global warming, you may need sweat towels more than you currently 'spect.

• spect-actor (etymologically unrelated)

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