abouts
- adverb
- /əˈbaʊts/
- UK
- Where abouts do you live?
Examples
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I mean, Claw's where abouts.
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- Where abouts?
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Tell me... ...what do you know... ...about my father's where... ...abouts?
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I've taken just abouts all I can.
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And so where, where abouts in outside of Saint Louis are you Effingham, IL?
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All of Tom's friends here abouts have so regretted not knowing you.
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There abouts.
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Where abouts?
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When I'm under cover to follow up on a valuable lead... concerning Where's claw abouts ...
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Do you know any good restaurants around here abouts?
Synonyms
Being near a place or person
In or around a place, moving from one part to another
At about that time, place, or number
At about that time
Near this place in the local area
In or near that place
Near that place, close to the spot
Antonyms
How Near
Surface Forms
Morphology
abouts = (transparent) = about + s
A dialectal/adverbial variant formed from 'about' with an added -s; the meaning 'around/nearby' is directly derivable from 'about'. [Postprocessing: moved 'about' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Abouts comes from the common word about, which means 'around' or 'near', with a small extra -s that some local speakers add to say 'in the area' or 'nearby'. So, abouts simply means 'nearby' or 'around a place'.