whenaboutsn.
/ˈhwɛnəbaʊts/ The time (or the approximate time) at which a thing happened. Also interrogative.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > time of occurrence
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whenabouts1898
the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > when or at the time that > approximately
whenabouts1952
the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > when? or at what time?
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1898 L. A. Tollemache Talks with Gladstone i. 19 The whereabouts and the whenabouts of my interviews with him.
1952 V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy 74 By eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, when or whenabouts I first heard it.
1966 A. E. Lindop I start Counting xx. 247 ‘When? Whenabouts?’ ‘..Lemme see. Be about four o'clock in the afternoon.’
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