assumptivity

Updated: April 30, 2025

By the tone of the second question, which was quite too straightforward to be confused with the bantering that we usually exchanged, I knew that he was willing, if diplomatically coaxed, to talk frankly. I then said cautiously, "Every one thinks so, but you're the only man forward that's likely to know." "Now ain't dat jest like de assumptivity of dem dah men in de forecastle.

Charles Boardman Hawes - The Mutineers