nearabouts
English edit
Etymology edit
near + about + -s (see adverbial genitive).
Adverb edit
nearabouts (not comparable)
- Synonym of nearabout
- nearabouts the library, nearabouts ten o'clock
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
- For where the majesty of a king's house draws recourse and access, it is both disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people, if the ways near-abouts be not fair and good […]