leastways

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English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

leastways (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial or dialectal) at least
    • 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
      'My advice, or, leastways, I should say, my orders, is,' said the fattest man of the party, 'that we 'mediately go home again.'
    • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 32:
      ‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’

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