everwhich
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ever + which. Formed similarly to the older words each, every and German irgendwelche.
Adverb[edit]
everwhich (not comparable)
References[edit]
- Leonidas Warren Payne, A Word-list from East Alabama (1909), page 309:
- everwhich, pron. Whichever. "Take everwhich (one) you want."
- Mchael B. Montgomery, Appalachian English, in The Americas and the Caribbean (edited by Edgar W. Schneider):
- AppE has aset of interrogative forms that invert ever and the wh- element [...] Everwhich one come night always come down to the house and stayed full half the night.