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thisaway adverb (In) this manner or direction. [DARE labels this usage “scattered, but more frequent Atlantic, South, South Midland, Texas”]

1863 Lee CW Letters (May 15) it is reported here that tha[y] is two hundred Thousan yankeys advansen on this A way . 1910 Weeks Barbourville Word List 457 that-a, this-a = that, this. "You should not talk that-a way." 1956 Hall Coll (Roaring Fork TN) You go thataway and I’ll go thisaway, and we'll whip them boys that are trying to scare us.

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