Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The matters which one is about or occupied with.
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Examples
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So, whatabouts and howabouts of the living standard of Rural areas or villages in the Union of Myanmar?
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: New policy requires HIV groups to register 2009
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I was right glad to get your letter yesterday, and to learn a little of your whereabouts and whatabouts.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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How about the Lisbon treaty was originally going to be a short constitution that guaranteed a few simple rights but once the National governments got involved it grew to include all manner of clauses, opt-outs and whatabouts.
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"But I presume there is courtesy enough in the American character to impel him to write to me, or both of us, within a day or two, telling us of his whereabouts and whatabouts.
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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