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-ways

-ways

a suffix appearing in native English adverbs: always; sideways.

Origin:
Middle English; see way1, -s1
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-ways is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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-ways
 
suffix forming adverbs
indicating direction or manner: sideways
 
[Old English weges, literally: of the way, from wegway]

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