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单词 baw-ways
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baw-waysadv.adj.

Brit. /ˈbɔːweɪz/, U.S. /ˈbɔˌweɪz/, /ˈbɑˌweɪz/, Irish English /ˈbɒːweːz/
Etymology: Origin of first element uncertain; compare Scots baw(w)aw side-glance of contempt or scorn. For the formation compare edgeways, endways, etc.
Anglo-Irish.
Crookedly; leaning awkwardly, leaning to one side; sideways.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > so as to incline to one side
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1907 J. Joyce Let. 1 Mar. (1966) II. 218 Scholz's five crown cloak hung bawways on me.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 290 Little Alf was knocked bawways.
1944 Béaloideas 14 164 [South-West Dublin Glossary] Baw-ways (aw as in bawl). Crooked or leaning to one side. ‘That hay-reek is badly built; it's all baw-ways.’
1947 Béaloideas XVII. 264 [North-County Dublin Glossary] Baw-ways. Crooked. Awkwardly. He did it baw-ways = wrong.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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