wherenot

English

WOTD – 1 October 2011

Etymology

From where +‎ not; compare whatnot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʍɛə(ɹ)nɒt/, /ˈwɛə(ɹ)nɒt/

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Noun

wherenot (uncountable)

1. (rare) Other related places; wherever.
   • October 1893, Edward Braddon, “Thirty Years of Shikar”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 500:

     […] and that now, as then, a morning with the hunt does not always repay the hunting man for getting up in the night and driving in the dark to Dumdum or Cox's Bungalow, or wherenot.

   • 1895, Francis Watt, The Law's Lumber Room, pages 32–33:

     The deed roundly asserted that the island of Antigua (or wherenot) lay in the parish of St Mary, […]

   • 1916 January 1, The Musical Times, page 16:

     We have thus, instead of a monument erected on the hearth of Russian tradition and feeling, numberless single stones, some of which, beautifully carved, — but in crooked lines, — lead us to Bagdad, China, and wherenot.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wherenot.

Translations

wherever — see wherever