ther aboute
Middle English
Adverb
ther aboute
- thereabout: about that, concerning that
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Sompners Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio xlvi, recto:
- Now mayſter (ꝙ the wyfe) er that I go / What wol ye dyne? I wol go ther aboute.
- "Now master," (quod the wife), "ere that I go, / What will ye dine? I will go thereabout."
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