abune

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbuːn/, /əˈbʏn/

abune (uncountable)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]

abune

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]

abune

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]
   • 1877, Peter Burn, English Border Ballads:

     Noo, high abune winds an' waves abune

   • 1991, Katharine Mary Briggs, A Dictionary of British Folk Tales in the British Language:

     And he gaed, and as he was bringing hame the water, a raven owre abune his head cried to him to look...

• Buena

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abune

1. subscription

• “abune”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

abune

1. Alternative form of abuin (“above”)
   • 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns‎^[1]:

     Now deil-ma-care about their jaw, The senseless, gawky million; I'll cock my nose abune them a', I'm roos'd by Craigen-Gillan!

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   • 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)‎^[2]:

     In the forefront o' that castelle feir, Twa unicorns are bra' to see; There's the picture of a knight, and a ladye bright, And the grene hollin abune their brie.

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   • 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character‎^[3]:

     "Leeze me abune them a'," said one of the company, who had waxed warm in the discussion, "for yon auld clear-headed (bald) man, that said, 'Raphael sings an' Gabriel strikes his goolden harp, an' a' the angels clap their wings wi' joy.'

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   • 1919, J. B. Salmond, My Man Sandy‎^[4]:

     There was a nesty plook cam' oot juist abune his lug on Setarday, an' he cudna get on his lum hat; so he had to bide at hame a' Sabbath, an' he spent the feck o' the day i' the hoose readin' Tammas Boston's "Power-fold State" an' the "Pilgrim's Progress."

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• “abune, adv., prep.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.