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ˈsomeplace, adv. and n. dial. and U.S.
Also some place.
[f. some a.1 + place n.]
A. adv. Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.
1880N. & Q. 24 Apr. 340/2 ‘No place’ in Devonshire is the usual form of ‘nowhere’, ‘no place else’ and ‘some place else’ being the commonest forms of ‘nowhere else’ and ‘somewhere else’. 1896Dialect Notes I. 425 Some place, somewhere. 1922Joyce Ulysses 639 Lodging some place about the pit of the stomach. 1933Punch 8 Nov. 511/3 Is there no' a nicer toon some place else? 1937J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men i. 18 Some place I'd find a cave. 1948H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 394 The long-awaited grammarian of vulgar American..will have a gaudy time anatomizing such forms as..‘It was some place else’, [etc.]. 1959M. Dolinsky There is no Silence v. 78 She's here some-place. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 63 Tony Jaguar decided he could surely unload his harvest of bones on some American someplace... He was right. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. e.7/4 I've always been able to get a room someplace, but this year I'm struggling.
B. n. Somewhere; a particular or unspecified place.
1922Joyce Ulysses 758 That drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens WC drunk in some place or other. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. ii. 190 There will be some town, some place close where I can live. 1971B. Patten Irrelevant Song 37 (title) In someplace further on. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 7 Feb. 15/3 Next the Navy tried Texas, where defense-minded Sen. John Tower said it was a fine idea—for someplace else. 1977H. Fast Immigrants iii. 165 His father came to America from someplace in Poland in eighteen sixty-nine. |