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thisaway

[ this-uh-wey ]

adverb

, Informal.
  1. this way; in this direction.
  2. in this manner.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of thisaway1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; alteration (with inserted schwa) of this way
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Example Sentences

"Which is why I'm going thisaway," replied Belet, pointing right.

Doc Burbank came thisaway just after the Civil War, from San Francisco, and bought more than 9,000 acres of land for $9,000, flipping it almost 20 years later for a cool quarter-mil sale to a land development syndicate he owned part of.

“We haven’t had guests for dinner in many a moon, so ye’ll have to be a-scusing our humble shack. Ain’t been no travelers thisaway for nigh on ten years nor more but yer welcome! Yer all welcome!”

“You can’t go. You can’t go and leave your mother thisaway. She need a woman, Florence, to help look after her. What she going to do here, all alone with me?”

“She learned how to play thisaway,” he said.

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