anyhowly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anyhow + -ly. First attested in 1949.[1]
Adverb
[edit]anyhowly (not comparable)
- (now East Africa, Singapore) In any which way; haphazardly, arbitrarily.
- 2022, Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost, New York, N.Y. […]: Scribner, →ISBN, page 353:
- Nabumbo Promise spoke, her voice low, almost a whisper. You're all grown now, huh? Youre going to talk to me just anyhowly now, huh?
References
[edit]- ^ “anyhowly, adv.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
