Definition of "spect" [spect]

• Expect (verb)

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• "Almira, and bring her home to make a nursery maid of her, and teach her all she ought to know, and "'spect" after all she is not "too large" to learn, poor young slave!"
• "I know you don't go out in de hot sun in May to set out trees an '' spect 'em to live. ""
• "( 'Grow like Topsy' is a reference to a character in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' who says at one point, 'I spect I grow'd.') -- correction, New York Times, Oct. 6"