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单词 nearabout
释义 nearabout, adv.|ˈnɪərəbaʊt|
Also near about, nearabouts, near 'bout.
[f. near adv.2 + about adv. and prep., abouts adv. and prep.]
a. In this vicinity; nearby. Obs.
b. dial. Nearly, almost; approximately.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vi. 20 Þe fairest maydens of þe cuntree nere aboute.1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 133 Neere abouts was that great and terrible combat. [1702Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1882) VIII. 20 The front of the Old house..is neer abt Eleven foot from the street.]1708Ibid. 81 The mouth of the Said creek bears Neer about North East from ye Knowl of Trees.1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. 206 Yes, I believe everybody's married, near⁓abouts, as far as I can learn.a1878Ainslie Land Burns (1892) 357 A towmond nearabout has run.1907A. Quiller-Couch Major Vigoureux xxii. 251 The tide bein' nearabouts on the top of the flood.1928‘M. Chapman’ Happy Mountain iii. 25 All the fields were nearabout flat.1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling i. 9 ‘I near about give you out, son,’ he said.1941J. Faulkner Men Working i. 19 We can make twelve bales of cotton, near 'bout, every year.
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