Meanings
- dialectalidiomaticSynonym of look here.First known use 19th c.
To our little correspondent a store called New Williams said "Look ahere."
1935 March 8, “Dreams And Dresses-A Tale About A Cold And Black Lass And A Quest”, in The Gold and Black, volume XVII, number 21, Birmingham, page 3, column 34 more examples
Oh, Prudence! look ahere. A breast-pin, in imitation of California, number one. The set is a glass diamond, found near the fiery mouth of Popocatepel.
1857, “The Drunkard's Wife; or Maine Law Defended”, in D. T. Stiles, editor, The Orator, volume I, Buffalo: T. S. Hawks, Act III, Scene II, page 212Fact, I assure you—now jist look ahere. Senator is a far bigger man than I be anywhere, he has more larnin, more sense, and the gift of speech of ten women’s tongues, reduced and simmered down to an essence ; talks like a book: we call him a ‘big bug’ to home.
1859 November 29, “The Season Ticket. No. VIII.–Our Neighbours and Distant Relations”, in Dublin University Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXIIL, page 602, column 1“Look ahere, boy; you can stay just twenty minutes. The doctor thinks this feller's shamming just to get up sympathy when his trial comes off.”
1876, Oraquill, “A Significant Dream–Lessons to City Officials” (chapter V), in Madame Jane Junk and Joe, San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Company, page 41“Look ahere, mister, we don't care one derned red cent for what we snakes out of this here lode. […]"
1893, Justin McCarthy, “A Strange Story” (chapter III), in Red Diamond, volume I, London: Chatto & Windus, page 62Synonyms: look here
Synonyms & antonyms
interjectionSynonym of look here.
Origin
From look here, the second term from a- + here.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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