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leastways

American  
[leest-weyz] / ˈlistˌweɪz /

adverb

Dialect.
  1. at least; at any rate; leastwise.


leastways British  
/ ˈliːstˌweɪz /

adverb

  1. informal at least; anyway; at any rate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of leastways

First recorded in 1350–1400, leastways is from Middle English leest weye. See least, -ways

Example Sentences

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‘Go now? What’s your little game? It isn’t time yet. It can’t be tea-time even, leastways not in decent places where there is tea-time.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

‘I saw him, Mr. Butterbur,’ said a hobbit; ‘or leastways I didn’t see him, if you take my meaning. He just vanished into thin air, in a manner of speaking.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ah didn’t aim tuh let on tuh yuh ’bout it, leastways not right away, but Ah ruther be shot wid tacks than fuh you tuh act wid me lak you is right now.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

We live on our lodgings, that's what we live on; leastways mother and me; Eustace keeps himself, and a bit over now that Mr. Hooper's started giving him his old clothes.

From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard

At the end of a quarter hour’s tinkering Earl reckoned that the engine would go “purty good” now; leastways, he hoped so, for there was nothing more he could do outside of a machine-shop.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

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