Behappen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Behappen is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To happen to, to befall.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete) To happen to, to befall.
More Meanings
- (dialect or obsolete) Perhaps, mayhap.
Example Sentences
Behappen it ul rain.
"But why have ye," said Artegall, "forborne Your owne good shield in daungerous dismay? That is the greatest shame and foulest scorne, Which unto any knight behappen may. To loose the badge that should his deedes display."
And where now might Timothy Tipkin sifflicate that it may behappen to be for to come from? Pummel thy pumkin, and a tell me that, Peter Grievous. Where, but out of my pouche, Gaby? That is, I first havin and holdin the wherewithalls, and the whys, and the wherefores. Do you take me now? So that forsooth, some folks may behappen to cry peccavi.
Word Forms
- behappens
- behappening
- behappened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include happen, befall, bechance, beget, betide, beword.
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