aboon
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of aboon
1350–1400; Middle English abone, abowne; above
Example Sentences
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Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o'a grace As lang's my arm Fair is your honest happy face, Great chieftain of the pudding race!
From BBC
We are immediately put on terra firma by the cautious reply of Waverley's guide when asked if it is Sunday: "Could na say just preceesely; Sunday seldom cam aboon the pass of Bally-Brough."
From Project Gutenberg
O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea.
From Project Gutenberg
By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoored; And past the birks and meikle-stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And through the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murdered bairn: And near the thorn aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hanged hersel.
From Project Gutenberg
The ceiling fair that rose aboon.
From Project Gutenberg
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