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about east (not comparable)

  1. (US, slang, New England) OK; all right; in a proper manner.
    • 1884, Hiram Bigelow, Family Companion, letter, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198:
      I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.

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  • Bartlett, John Russell (1884) Dictionary of Americanisms[1], 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198
  • Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “about east”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant [], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: [] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 6.
  • John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890) “about east”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. [], volume I, [London: [] Thomas Poulter and Sons] [], →OCLC, pages 6–7.
  • Hendrickson, Robert (2000) The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 172

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