What does or so mean?

or so

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.23 in modern English

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"How many people came to the party? – Thirty or so."
"It was about half full or so."
"In the first twenty or so years."
"A VVeek or ſo vvill probably reconcile us."
"When everyone had finished off with a drink from the well and an apple or so, the Dwarf produced a pipe about the size of his own arm, filled it, lit it, blew a great cloud of fragrant smoke and said, "Now.""

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