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thenabouts

thenabouts adverb: about then.

Adverb

thenabouts (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) about then
    • It has been conjectured that Aram got much of Cark’s money, and therewith paid off a mortgage; but this is only conjecture; and as he got a legacy by the will of an old lady thenabouts, it is as fair to presume that this money, so applied, was his own.1838, Norrisson Cavendish Scatcherd, Memoirs of the Celebrated Eugene Aram, who was executed for the murder of Daniel Clark in 1759, page 35
    • Our friend, Simon Jennings, could not sleep that night ; his reveries and scheming lasted from the rum-punch’s final drop, at ten p.m., to circiter two, a.m., and then, or thenabouts, the devil hinted “ steal it ;” and so, not till nearly four, he began to shut his eyes and dream again, as his...1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, The Crock of Gold: A Rural Nobel, page 194

Questions about thenabouts

What does thenabouts mean?
Thenabouts means about then.
What part of speech is thenabouts?
Thenabouts is an adverb.

Words near thenabouts in the dictionary

  1. then-
  2. then-and-now
  3. thenable
  4. thenables
  5. thenabout
  6. thenabouts
  7. thenad
  8. thenadays
  9. thenage
  10. thenal
  11. thenalidine

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