aboon
/uh-boon/US // əˈbun //
上岸
Definitions
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Scot. and British Dialect.
- : above.
Examples
Laith will the lassie be to weet her bonny shoon, but lang ere the play'll be ower she'll wat her hat aboon.
Aud Snow, a notified clock-makker 'at lived up aboon abit here, had the managing of her a lang time, at so much a year.
Often she exclaimed with solemn fervency, "The gift I hae is fae aboon, an' what He gies daurna be hidit."
But, mind ye—no a word o' this to ony living human being, and aboon a' to Provost Binkie.
Her seven sons in seven swans, Aboon their heads to flee; And he himsell a gay gos-hawk, A bird o high degree.
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