This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
somedeal
abaft
natheless
endlong
somewhither

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PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-BAFT)

MEANING:

adverb: Toward the rear or stern.
preposition: Behind.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English a- (toward) + baft (in the rear). Earliest documented use: 1400.

USAGE:

“The Irish sense of home place is almost a clinically identifiable organ, abaft the gizzard and above the spleen.”
Kevin Myers; Mailmen and Google Earth Already Deliver What Postcodes Can’t; Sunday Times (London, UK); Aug 2, 2015.

See more usage examples of abaft in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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