What does leastways mean?
Leastways means (UK, colloquial or dialectal) at least.
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/ˈliːstˌweɪz/ · adverb
(UK, colloquial or dialectal) at least.
“My advice, or, leastways, I should say, my orders, is,” said the fattest man of the party, “that we 'mediately go home again.”
[…]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so.
‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’
“I was lucky, just an arm (lost in combat), and the hope of a life, a normal man’s life, leastways”
Use leastways when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Leastways means (UK, colloquial or dialectal) at least.
Common synonyms include leastwise, at least, at any rate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“My advice, or, leastways, I should say, my orders, is,” said the fattest man of the party, “that we 'mediately go home again.”
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