someway, adv. Now chiefly U.S. colloq.
(ˈsʌmweɪ)
Also some way.
[f. some a.1 + way n.]
1. In some way or manner; by some means; somehow.
| c 1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 40 God wyl be vengyd on us sum way. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Aliqua,..someway: by some meanes. 1570 Levins Manip. 197/4 Someway, aliqua. 1641 F. Greville Disc. Nat. Episc. i. x. 57 b, All someway oppose the whole Law of Christ. 1674 Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 19, I will not yet dispair of Williamson's provideing for you some way or other. 1736 Gentl. Mag. VI. 598/1 That his Lordship had a Right some-way to interest himself in Affairs of this Nature. 1798 Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. 147 They are to..behave in company some way differently from what they behave every day in their own family. 1822–7 Good Study Med. (1829) I. 291 We shall have to contemplate..the bile as some way or other damaged in its secretion. 1890 Advance (Chicago) 27 Feb., We someway think that contentment is to feel no want. 1892 B. Potter Jrnl. 8 Oct. (1966) 278 They are related someway to Neil Gow. 1902 W. B. Yeats Where there is Nothing (1903) v. 106, I thought he would have had half Ireland with him by this time with his great preaching, but someway when he preaches to the people, they don't seem to mind him much. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 180 Pity of course: but somehow you can't cotton on to them someway. 1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 115 It's like he had got into the inside of you, someway. 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xiv. 140, I hate the hawks eatin' the quail, but I don't someway mind the 'coons eatin' the grapes. 1978 Washington Post 22 July a8, I keep the windows open and run my box fan. I figure the Lord will take care of me somehow, someway. |
2. At some distance. In quot. transf. of time.
Usually, and more correctly, written as two words: cf. some a.1 4 c (b), quot. 1867.
| 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede iv, But then came the days of sadness, when Adam was someway on in his teens. |