2. Pronoun. (nonstandard) Possessive form of '''anybody'''. ¹
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Definition of Anybodies
1. anybody [n] - See also: anybody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anybodies
Literary usage of Anybodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1886)
"... they should get the lighting of a whole town, wire it on the parallel system
and get fully started, when I will step in and run anybodies' arc lights on ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"... and am weekly carrying on this paper, which may be brought to anybodies house
within the Bills of Mortality, or penny post, for one penny the week; ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Now here are a lot of anybodies and somebodies teaching me, unconsciously, the
Mazurka. There are some moments when, if I looked in the glass, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"But that could not well be perfect equality—so they would have said —between
wandering tourists, who might be anybodies, and established residents always to ..."
5. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by John Bright, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"... and they cannot preserve their independence; and the nobles or landholders,'
and two or three lawyers, or two or three anybodies, who choose to combine ..."
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