abune
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
abune (uncountable)
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
Adverb
abune
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
Preposition
abune
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- 1877, Peter Burn, English Border Ballads:
- Noo, high abune winds an' waves abune
- 1991, Katharine Mary Briggs, A Dictionary of British Folk Tales in the British Language:
- And he gaed, and as he was bringing hame the water, a raven owre abune his head cried to him to look...
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abune”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
Anagrams
Scots
Alternative forms
Preposition
abune
- above, beyond
- 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns[1]:
- Now deil-ma-care about their jaw, The senseless, gawky million; I'll cock my nose abune them a', I'm roos'd by Craigen-Gillan!
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- 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)[2]:
- In the forefront o' that castelle feir, Twa unicorns are bra' to see; There's the picture of a knight, and a ladye bright, And the grene hollin abune their brie.
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- 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character[3]:
- "Leeze me abune them a'," said one of the company, who had waxed warm in the discussion, "for yon auld clear-headed (bald) man, that said, 'Raphael sings an' Gabriel strikes his goolden harp, an' a' the angels clap their wings wi' joy.'
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- 1919, J. B. Salmond, My Man Sandy[4]:
- There was a nesty plook cam' oot juist abune his lug on Setarday, an' he cudna get on his lum hat; so he had to bide at hame a' Sabbath, an' he spent the feck o' the day i' the hoose readin' Tammas Boston's "Power-fold State" an' the "Pilgrim's Progress."
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