| 单词 | where's to? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhere's (someone) to? Redundantly at the end of a where-clause, esp. in where's (someone) to? = ‘where has he (or she) gone?’, ‘where is he (or she)?’. south-western and U.S. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > in a or the place [phrase] > where's (someone) gone to where's (someone) to?1886 the world > space > place > belonging to or localized in a place [preposition] > (where's someone gone) to to1886 1886 W. Barnes Gloss. Dorset Dial. 110 Dorset folk often say ‘Where do ye live to’, or ‘bide to?’. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) At a political meeting at Taunton, Nov. 8th, 1885, a man shouted, ‘Where's Gordon to?’. 1893 H. C. O'Neill Told in Dimpses i. 29 ‘Where was he to, Mrs. Delve, when he wrote?’.. ‘Some haythenish place, Miss Annie, without any Christian name to it at all.’ 1925 Dial. Notes 5 345 To adv., at. ‘Stop where yer to.’ 1977 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. No. 27. 17/2 [Exeter] To (otiose). E.g. ‘Where's he to?’ (= ‘Where has he gone?’; ‘Where is he?’). 1986 Amer. Speech 61 190 The enquiry Where is he to? is the normal form of the question in the folk speech of Newfoundland, and is paralleled by such imperatives as Stay where you're to and Stay where you're at. < as lemmas |
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