adv. rare. [f. THEN adv., after thereabouts.] About that time.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. vi. (Arb.), 27. For then aboutes began the declination of the Romain Empire.
1776. Poor Old Sir Robin, No. 114. Autumn, Or Apple-Time, is the next Quarter of Course; and is said to begin then, or thenabouts, when the Days and Nights again become equal.
1842. R. Oastler, Fleet Papers, II. 344. I was mentioned more than once thenabouts.
1844. Tupper, Crock of G., xxiv. Then, or thenabouts, the devil hinted ‘steal it.’
