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hereaway en · ADV

Etymology

From here + away.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, regional) hereabouts, around here
    • "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? 1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City:
    • I daresay, if the truth was known, the old hag's feeding a rebel she's got hidden away in some snug hole hereaway." 1916, John Lang, Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches:
    • The Bat Black-black-bearaway Coom doon by hereaway. 1673-1915, F.W. Moorman, Yorkshire Dialect Poems: