everwhich

English

Etymology

From ever +‎ which. Formed similarly to the older words each, every and German irgendwelche.

Adverb

everwhich (not comparable)

1. (Appalachia, Southern US) Whichever.

References

• Leonidas Warren Payne, A Word-list from East Alabama (1909), page 309:

  everwhich, pron. Whichever. "Take everwhich (one) you want."

• Mchael B. Montgomery, Appalachian English, in The Americas and the Caribbean (edited by Edgar W. Schneider):

  AppE has aset of interrogative forms that invert ever and the wh- element [...] Everwhich one come night always come down to the house and stayed full half the night.

Anagrams

• whichever