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some one, someone, pron. (and n.)|ˈsʌmwʌn|
[f. some a.1 2 + one 24.]
Some person, somebody. someone else, used pregnantly to mean ‘a rival for the affections’. Cf. somebody else s.v. somebody n. 1 b (b).
αc1305in E.E.P. (1862) 114 To a womman he com..þat heo scholde him to sum on teche. 1382Wyclif Mark ix. 37 We syȝen sum oon for to caste out fendis in thi name. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. xvii. (1554) 90 Sum one, Parcas, shal them therof discharge. 1535Coverdale Eccles. iv. 14 Some one commeth out of preson, & is made a kynge: & another [etc.]. a1586Answ. to Cartwright 14 It is not peculiar to some one, or to some fewe alone. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 503 Some one intent on mischief. 1691J. Wilson Belphegor iv. ii, Peradventure your own, or some ones else; who knows. 1706Stevens Span. Dict. 1, Algúno, some body or some one. 1820Byron Juan iv. cx, As some one somewhere sings about the sky. 1858M. Arnold Merope 876 To the guest-chamber lead him, some one! 1872Ruskin Fors Clav. xxii. 17 Properly a carver at some one else's feast.
β1848Thackeray Van. Fair xi, ‘I have set my heart on Rawdon running away with someone.’ ‘A rich someone, or a poor someone?’ 1872Calverley Fly Leaves (1903) 73 And I think thou wearest Someone-else's hair. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign vii, As though someone had struck me with a hammer. 1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xxv. 261 It had become necessary to tell Selby that she couldn't love him any longer... Further, by her creed, it was only right that she should tell him about Someone Else as well. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid xviii. 178 There's someone on that roof all right. Two someones. 1941M. Allingham Traitor's Purse xi. 129 ‘She broke the engagement.’.. ‘Why? 'As she seen someone else?’ 1977A. Hunter Gently Instrumental i. 14 Walt half-choked: ‘There's—someone else!’.. ‘You dirty old queen, that's just what you'd think.’ 1978P. Porter Cost of Seriousness 30 To whom someones in the city must pay homage. |