Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗intj
Indicates that the speaker deems something highly unlikely.
conj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAs though; in a manner suggesting. · In mimicry of. · Indicating something that the speaker deems very unlikely, or is adamant that he or she would not do (see also interjection sense below).
From Middle English as ȝif, alls iff (“as if”), from Old English *ealswā ġif, attested only as swā ġif (“as if”), equivalent to as + if. Compare Saterland Frisian as of (“as if”), Dutch alsof (“as if”), Low German as of (“as if”), German als ob (“as if”).
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