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Definition of Aboon
1. prep. and adv. Above.
Definition of Aboon
1. Preposition. (context: Scotland British dialect) Above. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: Scotland British dialect) Above. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: Scotland British dialect) Above. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aboon
1. above [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aboon
Literary usage of Aboon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"41 Yon wee white Cot aboon the Mill, . As on ike banks f aboon them a' I loe him
... My pains o' hell on earth are past, His heart will never get aboon ! ..."
2. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"Desert not deserted wholly ! Where such calms as these can come,— Never tempest
more majestic Than this boundless silence dumb. THE BUSH aboon ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Carruthers (1849)
"EGBERT CRAWFORD, author of The Bush aboon Traquair, and the still finer lyric of
Tweedside, was the brother of Colonel Crawford of ..."
4. Glen Desseray and Other Poems: Lyrical and Elegaic by John Campbell Shairp, Francis Turner Palgrave (1888)
"And what would ye do there, At the bush aboon Traquair ? ... But the blithe lilt
o' that air, ' The Bush aboon Traquair,' I need nae mair, it's eneuch for ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of by Robert Chambers (1844)
"My vows and sighs, like silent air, Unheeded, never move her ; At the bonnie Bush
aboon Traquair, 'Twas there I first did love her. ..."
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