Last Updated ：2025/12/02

perhapser

Noun

A person who says perhaps in regard to a particular issue.

Japanese Meaning

ある問題に対して『たぶん』という返答をする人。 / どちらとも断言せず、あいまいな返答をする人。 / 意見をはっきり示さず、もたもたとためらう人。

As the committee debated, she was nicknamed the perhapser for always answering every proposal with a hesitant 'perhaps'.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

委員会が討論しているとき、彼女はいつも提案に対してためらいがちに「たぶん」と答えていたため、ある問題について「たぶん」と言う人とあだ名された。

Details

Sense（1）

A person who says perhaps in regard to a particular issue.

So he meets his client, this governing director I have described, secure in his panoply of power, and he meets him not as a professional man, not as a business man, not as a man even of artistic attainment, but as a “perhapser,” partly an artist and partly a professional man, and with no tradition, no background, probably no reputation to sustain him―nothing but his native wit.

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