thataway

alternative thattaway

1. Southern UShumorousnot comparableThat way (usually in terms of physical direction).First known use c. 1830s

   "You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"

   1996, Elmer Kelton, Wagontongue

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   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

   "They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.

   2003, Carola Dunn, Rattle His Bones