To suspect.
1834. They began to suspicion, maybe, that they had got the wrong sow by the ear.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 64.
1836. I suspicion he’s one of that bounding brotherhood, who, the Indians say, leaped over the Wabash and Mississippi as easily as a greyhound clears a log-fence.—Knick. Mag., vii. 15 (Jan.).
1843. It was “suspicioned” if Mrs. C. was not my wife, she ought to be.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 72.
1848. By this time I begun to spicion thar was sumthing rong.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 61 (Phila.).
1851. Says he, ‘Me Uncle Toby never ’ll suspicion that, seein’ it ain’t in the centher exactly.’—Knick. Mag., xxxvii. 123 (Feb.).
1851. He didn’t know I was thar. If he had er suspicioned it, he’d no more swore than he’d dar’d to kiss my Sal on er washin’ day.—‘Polly Peablossom’s Wedding,’ &c., p. 51.
1856. I don’t see why you should suspicion me, cappin: I’ve always done my duty. I’m an honest man to my duty.—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 39.
1856. Then she laughed fit to kill. I did n’t ’spicion p’raps what she was at, so I gin her the most fattest one of ’em.—Knick. Mag., xlviii. 433 (Oct.).
1857. “You’ve only been telling a dream, in this long yarn, we’ve been listening to.” “Wal,” replied the narrator; “some people that I’ve told it to, have suspicioned that it might be so.”—S. H. Hammond, ‘Wild Northern Scenes,’ p. 63.
1858. At las, after runnin’ all round, and ebbery which way, kinder ’stracted like, I ’gan for to ’spicion in my mind what de matter was, and peeped in de oben, and dare was poor Jocko almos’ burned to a crisp.—Knick. Mag., li. 155 (Feb.).
1861. I suspicion that something ’s hit him where he lives, and he ’s lying by till the would heals. I know how a man feels when the world ’s mean to him. He wants to get out of sight, and hide in a den like old Chrysalis.—Theodore Winthrop, ‘Cecil Dreeme,’ p. 118 (N.Y., 1876).
1890. They kinder suspicioned from my looks that I had found good prospects.—Haskins, ‘Argonauts of California,’ p. 250.
