Definition of "leastways" []

• Chiefly Southern U.S. At least. (adverb)

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• "'Nothing at all, Edie dear; leastways, that is, nothing to speak of,' said her mother, coming up from the shop hot and flurried from her desperate encounter with the redoubtable Miss Luttrell."
• ""It ain't the SMILING JANE," said one of the seamen; "leastways," he added cautiously, "it wasn't when I came aboard.""
• "Which is a bad thing, cause I always liked Lou and nobody likes a thief, leastways one that's low enough to steal from another carny."