som'ers, adv. U.S.
(ˈsʌməz)
Also somers.
Repr. colloq. pronunc. of somewheres.
| 1876 ‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer xxiii. 182 It keeps me in a sweat, constant, so's I want to hide som'ers. 1884 ― Huck. Finn xxiv. 241 It's reckoned he left three or four thousand in cash hid up som'ers. 1896 ― in Harper's Mag. Aug. 344/2 His aunt Polly wouldn't let him..go traipsing off somers wasting time. 1909 Dialect Notes III. 404 Som'ers, adv., somewhere. ‘He's som'ers around.’ |