wherenot
English
WOTD – 1 October 2011
Etymology
where + not; compare whatnot.
Pronunciation
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Noun
wherenot (uncountable)
- (rare) Other related places; wherever.
- 1893, October, Edward Braddon, Thirty Years of Shikar, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 500:
- […] and that now, as then, a morning with the hunt does not always repay the hunting man for getting up in the night and driving in the dark to Dumdum or Cox's Bungalow, or wherenot.
- 1895, Francis Watt, The Law's Lumber Room, pages 32-33:
- The deed roundly asserted that the island of Antigua (or wherenot) lay in the parish of St Mary, […]
- 1916, January 1, The Musical Times, page 16:
- We have thus, instead of a monument erected on the hearth of Russian tradition and feeling, numberless single stones, some of which, beautifully carved, — but in crooked lines, — lead us to Bagdad, China, and wherenot.
- 1893, October, Edward Braddon, Thirty Years of Shikar, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 500:
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:wherenot.
Translations
wherever — see wherever