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'round

'round preposition: apheretic form of around.

Preposition

'round

  1. Apheretic form of around.
    • I’m sure I look demure enough, as I go ’round the city, / And do my best to hide the fact that I am young and pretty, / And I, therefore, cannot see, when I go out to preach, / Why men must say to me that I’m a perfect peach; […]1897, Hugh Morton [pseudonym; Charles Morton Stewart McLellan], “They All Follow Me”, in Wehman’s Song Book, number 61, New York, N.Y.: Henry J. Wehman, […], →OCLC, page 10, column 1
    • Morning might never come 'round these parts / Sun never gonna come up2018, Zeal & Ardor, Don't You Dare

Adverb

'round (not comparable)

  1. Apheretic form of around.
    • The cottonwood leaves were dropping yellow, just as they be now, for it were fall, and some things in nature are about the same one year as another; but the country has changed so much, that when I get to thinking of them days, and look ’round and see the valley a-settled up and the wire fences...1895 May, Sargent Robie, “The Old Trapper’s Story”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXXIX, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, […], page 584, column 1
    • “Oh, papa!” cried Patty, in dismay, “you said I could keep house for you; and Aunt Alice has taught me lots about it; and she’ll teach me lots more; and you know I can make good pumpkin pies; and, of course, I can dust and fly ’round; and that’s about all there is to housekeeping, anyway.”1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 23

Phrases with 'round

Questions about 'round

What does 'round mean?
'round means apheretic form of around.
What part of speech is 'round?
'round can be a preposition or an adverb.

Words near 'round in the dictionary

  1. 'roided out
  2. 'roids
  3. 'rona
  4. 'roo
  5. 'roos
  6. 'round
  7. 'rrhoids
  8. 'rt
  9. 's
  10. 's born
  11. 's-Hertogenbosch

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