thataway
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
/ˈðædəˌweɪ/
Definition of thataway
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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(Southern-US, humorous, not-comparable)That way (usually in terms of physical direction).
“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 . . .”
“I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.”
“"You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"”
“"They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From that + way with anaptyxis of [a], see also -a-.
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