sideyways

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Adverb

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sideyways (comparative more sideyways, superlative most sideyways)

  1. (Scotland) Sideways.
    • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 73:
      With the mirrored shades on I zipped up the tent then ran sideyways down the brae to pop the milk back in the pool.
    • 2011, John Boyle, Galloway Street:
      I like to stand there making the rope loop sideyways and back again and looking across at the women in their turbans leaning out the windows blethering to each other or shouting down to their weans in the street []