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alternative howsomdever
- archaicdialectalnot comparablehowsoever
But howsomedever, that's nither here nor thar, as the fellow said.
1844, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 10, page 461 more example
Howsomedever, all Lovells isn’t Kaumlos, and there ’s Loveridges and Loversedges, and the young man ’s welcome to a cup o’ tea so long as he be’aves hisself.
[1891], F[rancis] W[ylde] Carew (indicated as editor) [pseudonym; Arthur E. G. Way], “I Make the Acquaintance of Mantis Lovell”, in No. 747. Being the Autobiography of a Gipsy., Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 218
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