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somewheres

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1859, OED Evaluation: Dialectal

In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown

ExampleMeaning
I remember in our home we had a girl her name was Melba. I forget what her last name was now. Maybe it was West but I'm not sure. And she stayed with us oh three or four years and then she got a job somewheres and then she got married, and there were boys who came over and you-know worked on farms or somewheres and then they got started and got out on their own.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
ExampleMeaning
At that time when they tore that down you see there must have been then the market school house, and then they built Anne-Street School. I would say probably 'cause, probably nineteen-hundred and eight, ten, somewheres around there. Must have been when it was built.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: He's kind-of interested in a girl anyway. Sarah says- and ah she says, "Well you're NOT going out there." Somewheres near Warsaw I think she lives. And ah the mother says, "No y-- you-" it's pretty strict so it's a good thing. Sarah she's- something might happen you-know. None of that stuff.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
Speaker: But you-know maybe when they change this highway sometime, with the- all these houses I don't know what they're going to do like you-know when they build all these houses up here. Interviewer: Oh yeah would it get busier you mean or- ? Speaker: Yeah or whether they'll change the- out- yeah somewheres I don't know where. Maybe they'll take the house and-everything and go right straight through here or-something.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: But mostly ah something to do with milk 'cause he was in another place that they had ah, at ah, what's the little place just below Richmond-Hill. Interviewer: Thornhill? Speaker: Thornhill or somewheres around there.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
Speaker: The-Family-Herald, it was a magazine that come in the mailbox from out west it seemed, somewheres. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But it had everything in it. It had ah, recipes and quilting and news and all-kinds-of-things.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
ExampleMeaning
They- they come over- the original ones that- as far back as we've gone. They came Belfast. And they were here somewheres around eighteen-thirty-two, eighteen-thirty-four. I haven't got any records of- boat records, and apparently there's some of them available but I haven't gone that far and I'm not computer-savvy and-all-the-rest-of-that-stuff.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown