thataway

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And you let him go thataway -- right here; you heard the wheels that took 'em away! "

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  1. adverb Southern & Midland U.S. That way.
  2. Regional Note
    The history of the English language is full of examples of epenthesis, the addition to a word of a vowel or consonant not part of the original word. This process is still active in regional dialects. Two examples now used chiefly in Southern and Midland dialects are thisaway and thataway, which show epenthetic vowels intruding between this way and that way. Another highly excoriated instance of vowel epenthesis, not regional, is the pronunciation of athlete as (ăthˈə-lētˌ).

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  • You all dont be makin light of the dead thataway, Bell said. —  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  • "It ain't right for us to treat our neighbors thataway," says she, "and I won't have it I'm living up to my laws," says he, calm. —  The Man Next Door
  • And you let him go thataway--right here; you heard the wheels that took 'em away Yes, Colonel," says I; "that's true. —  The Man Next Door
  • Do you want to see a woman's face looking thataway--see it all your life? —  The Man Next Door
  • "There's a scheme on to rob Borrodaile of that claim of his Looks thataway," said Lloyd passively Who is this Sam that was to get the bag of samples and take it to McGurvin's by a roundabout way?" —  Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor
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