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Hereabouts vs Hereaway - What's the difference?

hereabouts | hereaway |

As adverbs the difference between hereabouts and hereaway

is that hereabouts is near here while hereaway is (regional) hereabouts, around here.

hereabouts

English

Adverb

(-)
  • Near here.
  • The people hereabouts are pretty decent folk.

    hereaway

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (regional) hereabouts, around here
  • * {{quote-book, year=1673-1915, author=F.W. Moorman, title=Yorkshire Dialect Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The Bat Black-black-bearaway Coom doon by hereaway . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1817, author=R.M. Ballantyne, title=The Pirate City, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="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? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=John Lang and Jean Lang, title=Stories of the Border Marches, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I daresay, if the truth was known, the old hag's feeding a rebel she's got hidden away in some snug hole hereaway ." }}