thataway
/ˈðædəˌweɪ/
thataway adverb: that way (usually in terms of physical direction).
Adverb
thataway (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 . . .1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239
- I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN
Examples of thataway in a sentence
- "You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"1996, Elmer Kelton, Wagontongue:
- "They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.2003, Carola Dunn, Rattle His Bones:
Forms of thataway
| alternative form | thattaway |
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Origin of thataway
From that + way with anaptyxis of [a], see also -a-.
Questions about thataway
- What does thataway mean?
- Thataway means that way (usually in terms of physical direction).
- How do you use thataway in a sentence?
- "You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"
- What part of speech is thataway?
- Thataway is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce thataway?
- Thataway is pronounced /ˈðædəˌweɪ/ (US).
Words near thataway in the dictionary
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