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thattaway

thattaway is the alternative form of thataway.

Meaning of thataway

Adverb

thataway (not comparable)

  1. (Southern US, humorous) 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

Questions about thattaway

What is thattaway the alternative form of?
Thattaway is the alternative form of thataway.

Words near thattaway in the dictionary

  1. thatt
  2. thatta
  3. thatta boy
  4. thattaboy
  5. thattagirl
  6. thattaway
  7. Thatter
  8. Thatters
  9. thattun
  10. Thaua
  11. thaub

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