beway

名词 n. 连词 conj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Movement; sway; influence. India,rare
    — The Third Five-Year Plan with an industrial bias will no doubt, help the State of Kerala to make adequate beway in the matter of industrialisation which alone can pull up educated sons of India from their present low economic level.
  2. Movement away; loss. India,rare
    — But their greatness admitted, it had been pointed out again, and with pe[r]sistence, that Bengali drama had not progressed in any measure, and that there was too much of a beway to make up.
连词 conj.
  1. By way; because. Ireland,Scotland,US,dialectal
    — [...] an' then hee'l turn him roon behint-afore an' play treeks, till collie gems at him; an' then beway o' makin friens again, hee'l Btreek an' pat him, [...]

词形变化

beways alternative beways plural

词源

词源 1
From by way equivalent to be- + way. Compare German wegen (“because of, by reason of”).
词源 2
Perhaps from the phrase "by the way(side)", equivalent to by + way.
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