Meanings
- UKabbreviationcolloquialnot comparableAbbreviation of apparently.
Well appaz Andy (!) Marr's novel is this totes must-read, kind of the new Mantel except minus communism & way more hilair?
2014 September 23, Catherine Bennett, “It's this totes must-read, kind of the new Mantel except minus communism”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 20152 more examples
'Yeah, except one awful time she'd used, like, washable ink for her notes. Like, one of those fountain pens you used in the old days? And the highlighter pen dissolved the writing underneath. Appaz Mum went ballistic.'
2016, Sarah Meyrick, Knowing Anna, London: Marylebone House, →ISBN, page 151[…] One story I heard is that it's the ghost of some kid who drowned in Culvercot Bay, like, thirty years ago.' ¶ 'Really? That happened?' ¶ 'Appaz. […]
2017, Ross Welford, What Not to Do if You Turn Invisible, London: HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN, page 194
Origin
From apparently + -z. Compare soz (“sorry”) and tomoz (“tomorrow”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish näemmä
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French askip
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Polish podobno
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Cite this entry
appaz. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appaz
“appaz.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appaz. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “appaz,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appaz.
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