thenabouts, adv.
(ˈðɛnəˈbaʊts)
Also (rarely) thenabout.
[f. then adv., after thereabouts.]
About that time.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. vi. (Arb.) 27 For then aboutes began the declination of the Romain Empire. 1842 R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 344, I was mentioned more than once thenabouts. 1843 Dickens Mart. Chuz. (1844) xiii. 164 Five year ago, or thenabout. 1844 Tupper Crock of G. xxiv, Then, or thenabouts, the devil hinted ‘steal it’. 1922 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 664/2 If Archdeacon Brandon..must go down, it is then or thenabouts that go down he will. a 1967 A. Ransome Autobiogr. (1976) i. 18 When I first came to fish the Beela..in 1930 or thenabouts. |