Dialectally
adv
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Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a dialectal way.
"[...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ)."
Synonyms
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More examples"[...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ)."
Etymology
From dialectal + -ly.