baw-ways

adjective

Crooked; sideways.

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Meanings

adjectivebaw-ways (comparative more baw-ways, superlative most baw-ways)

comparative more baw-ways · superlative most baw-ways

  1. IrelandCrooked; sideways.

    Little Alf was knocked bawways. Faith, he was. —Good Christ! says he.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 290
adverb
  1. Irelandcrookedly, awkwardly

    He did it baw-ways

    A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN CLOSSARY

Origin

Unknown.

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