Citations:wherenot
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English citations of wherenot
Something akin to wherever
[edit]- 1932, William Faulker, Light in August, Vintage International Edition, October 1990, page 211:
- The road curved on, moonblanched, bordered at wide intervals by the small, random, new, terrible little houses in which people who came yesterday from nowhere and tomorrow will be gone wherenot, dwell on the edges of towns.
Noun
[edit]- 1930, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, volume 96, page 499:
- [...] to the effect that he did not think there were any bids for the work other than the bid of the plaintiff, giving his reason for so thinking that it was a "wherenot" and the ethics among the contractors was that no other contractor would bid on another man's "wherenot," was not sufficient to prove defendants' claim of unlawful conspiracy [...]