thenaboutsadv.
/ˈðɛnəˈbaʊts/ About that time.
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the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at a particular or certain time > approximately
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the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > about that time
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. vi. 8 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 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiii. 164 Five year ago, or thenabout.
1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold 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.
1931 D. Corkery Synge Introd. p. vii Ireland in 1907—thereabouts and thenabouts.
a1967 A. Ransome Autobiogr. (1976) i. 18 When I first came to fish the Beela..in 1930 or thenabouts.
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