howsomedever

adv

howsomedever

adv
1

Archaic, Dialectal howsoever

  • But howsomedever, that's nither here nor thar, as the fellow said.1844, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 10, page 46:
  • Howsomedever, all Lovells isn’t Kaumlos, and there ’s Loveridges and Loversedges, and the young man ’s welcome to a cup o’ tea so long as he be’aves hisself.[1891], F[rancis] W[ylde] Carew (indicated as editor) [pseudonym; Arthur E. G. Way], “I Make the Acquaintance of Mantis Lovell”, in No. 747. Being the Autobiography of a Gipsy., Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 218:
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