about east
English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]about east (not comparable)
- (US, slang, New England) OK; all right; in a proper manner.
- 1884, Hiram Bigelow, Family Companion, letter, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198:
- I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.
References
[edit]- Bartlett, John Russell (1884) Dictionary of Americanisms[1], 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “about east”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 6.
- John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890) “about east”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 6–7.
- Hendrickson, Robert (2000) The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 172