Meanings
- Irelandnot comparableobsoleteIn any degree; at all.
What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.
1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine2 more examples
...he did banquett hym, so that after diner there was conference of both thair armes togethers in divers poyntes nothing atall discrepaunte.
1576, John Foxe, Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer, Camden Soc....if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...
1891, The Railroad Trainman, The Brotherhood, pages 390–
Origin
Contraction of at all.
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