whenabout
Etymology
From when + about.
whenabout means approximately in time. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
adv
- Approximately in time.“In the first place, I wish to congratulate the Premier upon the spirit which has inspired him to bring about the change from “colony” to “dominion"; and the only defect in the spirit I can really find isthat^([sic]) he is premature to the extent of whenabout fifty years.”
- At what approximate time.“Having expected the Rector of Faringdon for some time at my house, I could not so well say whenabout we should endeavour to get to Town; […]”
noun
- The approximate time.“After a dogged silence of long months, in which there have been scores of anxious inquiries on the part of our readers, as to his whereabout, whatabout, and whenabout,—and when-to-be-about,—the Indifferent Man has at length, in the cool indifference of his own good time, 'forked over' the stanzas below, composed on the daguerreotype shadow of a sweetheart whom he had never seen.”