about east
English
Adverb
about east (not comparable)
- (US, slang, New England) OK; all right; in a proper manner.
- 1884, Hiram Bigelow, Family Companion, letter, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198:
- I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.
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References
- Bartlett, John Russell (1884) Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “about east”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 6.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 1, pages 6–7
- Hendrickson, Robert (2000) The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 172
Anagrams
- eastabout