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sideyways

sideyways adverb: sideways.

Adverb

sideyways (comparative more sideyways, superlative most sideyways)

  1. (Scotland) Sideways.
    • With the mirrored shades on I zipped up the tent then ran sideyways down the brae to pop the milk back in the pool.1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 73
    • I like to stand there making the rope loop sideyways and back again and looking across at the women in their turbans leaning out the windows blethering to each other or shouting down to their weans in the street […]2011, John Boyle, Galloway Street

Forms of sideyways

comparativemore sideyways
superlativemost sideyways

Questions about sideyways

What does sideyways mean?
Sideyways means sideways.
What part of speech is sideyways?
Sideyways is an adverb.

Words near sideyways in the dictionary

  1. sidework
  2. sidewound
  3. sidey
  4. sideyard
  5. sideyards
  6. sideyways
  7. Sidford
  8. Sidgwick
  9. Sidgwickian
  10. sidh
  11. sidha

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