hereaway

English

Etymology

From here +‎ away.

Adverb

hereaway (not comparable)

  1. (regional) hereabouts, around here
    • 1673-1915, F.W. Moorman, Yorkshire Dialect Poems‎:
      The Bat Black-black-bearaway Coom doon by hereaway.
    • 1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City‎:
      "It's a purty big raigion hereaway," said Flaggan, during a brief halt to recover breath; "why shouldn't I steer for the Great Zahairy, an' live wi' the Bedooin Arabs?
    • 1916, John Lang and Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches‎:
      I daresay, if the truth was known, the old hag's feeding a rebel she's got hidden away in some snug hole hereaway."
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