(dated, formal) please

Used to introduce a suggestion or proposal for a future event. / Used to introduce a speculation about a future event.

Nonstandard form of if.

Nonstandard form of if.

(law, finance, business) Used to indicate the timing and contingency of some obligation in contracts, especially financial.

(Australia, idiomatic) To be frugal or miserly.

(colloquial) Expresses skepticism toward a hypothetical argument by another.

(humorous) Said of a person who habitually mislays things.

With limited tools, single-minded people apply them inappropriately or indiscriminately.

Alternative form of -ferous