thataway
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[edit]thataway (not comparable)
- (humorous or dialect) That way (usually in terms of physical direction).
- 1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239:
- Now there’ll be a jackpot an’ no mistake. I’ll be desperate thataway. Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse. Like a weary pilgrim who hears them pearly gates clang shut behind him . . .
- 1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
- I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.
- 1996, Elmer Kelton, Wagontongue:
- "You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"
- 2003, Carola Dunn, Rattle His Bones:
- "They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.