ALONE
ADJECTIVES/ADVERBS
► ALL ALONE LIKE A COUNTRY DUNNY completely alone; by yourself; friendless → 1988 Aust. sl.
► ALL-ANERLY quite alone → 1830 Sc.
► ALL BY ONE’S LONESOME alone; solo → 20C Amer. sl.
► ALL OF ONE’S LONE alone, by oneself → 1890 Amer. dial.
► ALL ONE’S LONE alone, by oneself → 1917 Amer. dial.
► ANERLY ► YANNERLY alone, lonely, solitary → 1844 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BURD-ALONE entirely alone; said of a solitary person or being → 1572 Sc. obs.
► BY ODD alone, separately, by itself → 1330 obs.
► BY ONE’S LEE-LANE quite alone, by oneself → 1878 Sc.
► BY ONE’S LONE alone, by oneself → 1910 Amer. dial.
► DOLO alone, on one’s own, solo → 1990 African-American sl.
► HIGHLONE entirely alone → 1760 US
► JACK AND JOAN alone, on one’s own → 1990 rhyming sl.
► LANERLY ► LENNERLIE alone, lonely, reserved in manner → 1823 Sc.
► LIKE A SHAG ON A ROCK alone, on one’s own; denoting the isolation or unhappiness associated with solitude → 1845 Aust. sl.
► LORN abandoned, left alone; bereft of; lonely, desolate, wretched → 1475 obs.
► ODDLY alone, singly, solely → 1300 obs.
► ONELY alone, singly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON ONE’S ACE alone, on one’s own → 1904 Aust.
► ON ONE’S DARBY AND JOAN alone → 1940 rhyming sl.
► ON ONE’S JACK JONES alone, on one’s own → 1925 rhyming sl.
► ON ONE’S OWNSOME alone, on one’s own → 1939 sl.
► ON ONE’S PAT MALONE alone, on one’s own → 1908 rhyming sl., chiefly Aust.
► ON ONE’S TOD (SLOAN) alone, on one’s own → 1934 UK rhyming sl.
► ON YOUR DARBY alone; on one’s own → 1942 UK rhyming sl. formed on ‘Darby and Joan’
► PAT MALONE ► PAT MALONEY alone → 1930 rhyming sl.
► SINGLE-O alone, on one’s own; often applied specifically to working without an accomplice → 1930 US sl., chiefly criminals’ usage
► SINGULAR alone; away from others; solitary → 1382
► SOLITANEOUS alone, solitary, without company → 1656 obs.
NOUNS
► AUTOPHOBIA ► AUTOPHOBY an abnormal fear of being by oneself → 1991 (Bk.)
► MONOPHOBIA fear of being alone → 1880
► ONEHEAD a being alone; solitude → 1340 obs.
► ONESHIP a being alone or one; oneness → 1630 obs.
► ONLINESS a being alone; solitariness, solitude → 1340 obs.
► SINGULARITY a being alone or apart from others; solitariness → 1398 obs.
PHRASES
► HIS HAT COVERS HIS FAMILY said of one who is alone in the world, and has to provide only for himself → 1854
► ON ONE’S ACE on one’s own; alone → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► ON ONE’S OWNEY-OH ► ON ONE’S OWNIO on one’s own, alone → 1922 jocular usage
► ON ONE’S OWNSOME by oneself → 1946
► WE’RE ALL TOGETHER LIKE BROWN’S COWS we’re alone → 19C Anglo-Irish
VERBS
► PLAY A LONE HAND to do or live alone → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SOLITARE to live alone; to avoid companionship → 1953 Amer. dial.
► TAKE ON to be left alone, to be left to oneself; to take what may come → 1897 Sc.
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