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/ˈðædəˌweɪ/ · adverb
(chiefly Southern US or humorous) That way (usually in terms of physical direction)..
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 . . .
I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.
"You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"
"They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.
Use thataway when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Thataway means (chiefly Southern US or humorous) That way (usually in terms of physical direction)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 . . .
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