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单词 up-by
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up-byadv.

Brit. /ˌʌpˈbʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌəpˈbaɪ/, Scottish English /ˌʌpˈbaɪ/
Forms: Also up-bye.
Etymology: < up adv.2 2, 8d + by prep. 2. Compare in- prefix1, out-by adv. and adj.
Scottish (and northern dialect).
Up there; up at (or to) a particular place (spec. a ‘great house’ or mansion).
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [adverb] > at a place (of importance)
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 8 Up by the lambie's lying yonder styth.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 46 She sits in the neuk yonder, upbye.
1830 J. Wilson Christopher North (1856) III. 37 Wha can see the..cairn up-by yonder, when a' the haill heaven is ae coal-cloud?
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xix. 144 Inveetin' the coachman..up bye, aifter Sir Simon gaed awa'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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