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Quotation dates: 1894
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HEREABOOT(S), adv. Sc. forms of Eng. hereabout(s), somewhere in the neighbourhood; also used attrib. = belonging to the neighbourhood.Fif. 1894 D. S. Meldrum Margrédel ix.:
"She'll marry a hereaboot man, or I'm cheated, just as young Maister Willy," says I, "'ll be bringing hame some Cupar lass by-and-by."
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