Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *wegaz
Proto-West Germanic *weg
Old English weġ
Middle English wey
English way
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese and Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).
Meanings
(in reply to no way, slang) Yes; it is true; it is possible.
- We searched the vehicle. It was clean, so we did the body cavity searches.
- No way.
- Way! 1992, Wayne's World (film):
We repeated this ritual of “no way - way, no way - way” over the years. 2011, William Schwenn, Dogs of Meadowbrook:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *wegaz
Proto-West Germanic *weg
Old English weġ
Middle English wey
English way
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese and Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).
Meanings
To do with a place or places. ▸ A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks. 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
"Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
We lied our way through the debriefing.
the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance 1688 November 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 5 November 1688]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
To do with a place or places. ▸ A means to enter or leave a place.
We got into the cinema through the back way.
Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
To do with a place or places. ▸ A roughly-defined geographical area.
If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
To do with a place or places. ▸ Distance in general
It's a long way from here.
I was surprised when I managed to run the whole way.
Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.
"It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
You're going about it the wrong way. He's known for his quirky ways. I don't like the way she looks at me.
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.” 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
He's finally seen the error of his ways.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
(usually, with modifier, with ‘the’) A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. ▸ A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
A state or condition
When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
He's in a bad way.
Personal interaction. ▸ Possibility (usually in the phrases ‘any way’ and ‘no way’).
There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
Personal interaction. ▸ Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
(Germanic) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
(uncountable) Speed, progress, momentum.
Immediately afterwards, a quick and eager short dark man came into the room with so much way upon him that he was within a foot of Clennam before he could stop. 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way. 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books, published 2003, page 343:
A degree, an amount, a sense.
That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
(US, qualifier:As the head of an interjectory clause; followed by an infinitive starting with “to”; As the head of an interjectory clause; followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
Jimmy leaned forward holding his ear, the personification of naïveté, looking as young as a baby with his oh-so-innocent face. “Oh, way to get us busted, Jimmy,” Curt hissed under his breath. 2001, Joshua Nedelman, The Garden of Eastern, page 36:
Way to ruin the moment, guys.
"Oh, way to care about how I feel." His voice took on an exaggerated “Valley Girl” tone. 2012, Nancy Manther, A Charmed Life:
Oh, way to start a rumor, Hope. Angel glared the silent statement at her sister. 2009, Linda Winfree, Fall in Me, page 165:
(plural, plural-only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time. 1912, Fredrick A. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World, page 36:
(plural, usually) A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.
zh 方式 (method or manner) · sw mamna (method or manner) · jv dalan (road, direction, path) · tr mümkünat (possibility) · ru доро́га (road, direction, path) · eo vojo (road, direction, path) · ht fason (method or manner) · ur راستہ (road, direction, path) · qu ñan (road, direction, path) · lez рехъ (road, direction, path) · lb Manéier (method or manner) · ar طريق (road, direction, path) · hil dalan (road, direction, path) · ar سَبِيل (road, direction, path) · zne gine (road, direction, path) · cu пѫть (road, direction, path) · gl vía (road, direction, path) · ho dala (road, direction, path) · de Weise (method or manner) · sq rrugë (road, direction, path) · ur طرح (method or manner) · no måte (method or manner) · ang ƿeg (road, direction, path) · sv väg (road, direction, path) · ms jalan (road, direction, path) · ceb dalan (road, direction, path) · da måde (method or manner) · ca mitjà (means to enter or leave) · ota یول (method or manner) · fi matka (road, direction, path) · ota طور (method or manner) · ta வழி (road, direction, path) · cy modd (method or manner) · wa manire (method or manner) · ga slí (road, direction, path) · uk шлях (road, direction, path) · cu ⱂⱘⱅⱐ (road, direction, path) · pdt Wies (method or manner) · zza sop (roughly-defined geographical area) · fur mût (method or manner) · fi tahto (determined course) · wa tchimin (road, direction, path) · zh 道 (road, direction, path) · km ពិធី (method or manner) · sq udhë (road, direction, path) · la modus (method or manner) · eu bide (road, direction, path) · fr façon (method or manner) · fi johde (longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc.) · hy կերպ (method or manner) · nmn ʻáu (road, direction, path) · ps لار (method or manner) · sw mamna (road, direction, path) · sh pȗt (road, direction, path) · txb yakne (method or manner) · pt caminho (roughly-defined geographical area) · hi राह (road, direction, path) · ro drum (road, direction, path) · uk спо́сіб (method or manner) · th ทาง (road, direction, path) · fi hyvä tapa (as the head of an interjectory clause) · pl droga (road, direction, path) · so jid (road, direction, path) · gd modh (method or manner) · id jalan (road, direction, path) · cs cesta (road, direction, path) · pdt Wajch (road, direction, path) · th วิถี (method or manner) · khb ᦑᦱᧂ (road, direction, path) · gd slighe (road, direction, path) · fi mahdollisuus (possibility) · ms cara (method or manner) · uk путь (road, direction, path) · fa طریقه (method or manner) · zh 辦法 /办法 (method or manner) · sl pot (road, direction, path) · cy ffordd (method or manner) · tet dalan (road, direction, path) · izh koosi (method or manner) · trp lam (road, direction, path) · ti መንገዲ (road, direction, path) · fi mieli (degree, amount, sense) · my နည်း (method or manner) · sw njia (method or manner) · pt caminho (means to enter or leave) · tg роҳ (road, direction, path) · te దారి (road, direction, path) · nl weg (road, direction, path) · fi tapa (degree, amount, sense) · uz yoʻl (road, direction, path) · zza ray (road, direction, path) · pt jeito (method or manner) · ckb ڕێگە (road, direction, path) · wmw njira (road, direction, path) · mg lalana (road, direction, path) · ba юл (road, direction, path) · sv vis (method or manner) · fy wei (road, direction, path) · es medios (means to enter or leave) · te పద్ధతి (method or manner) · fr moyen (method or manner) · es vía (road, direction, path) · ur طریقہ (method or manner) · av нух (road, direction, path) · hi तरह (method or manner) · sco wey (method or manner) · nl manier (method or manner) · fa راه (road, direction, path) · min jalan (road, direction, path) · fi reitti (means to enter or leave) · sk cesta (road, direction, path) · ru спо́соб (method or manner) · az yol (road, direction, path) · gcf mannyè (method or manner) · sa मार्ग (road, direction, path) · gd dòigh (method or manner) · sh пу̑т (road, direction, path) · te మార్గము (road, direction, path) · es manera (method or manner) · fr voie (road, direction, path) · msk daran (road, direction, path) · de Art (method or manner) · cy ffordd (road, direction, path) · ar طَرِيق (road, direction, path) · pt jeito (possibility) · km ថ្នល់ (road, direction, path) · ja 方法 (method or manner) · orv путь (road, direction, path) · mba dalan (road, direction, path) · ckb ڕێ (road, direction, path) · rmq dron (road, direction, path) · hi ढंग (method or manner) · id cara (method or manner) · ja 道 (road, direction, path) · pt meio (means to enter or leave) · oc via (road, direction, path) · liv riek (road, direction, path) · hi विधि (method or manner) · is vegur (road, direction, path) · lv veids (method or manner) · hy ուղի (road, direction, path) · fi tie (means to enter or leave) · ru путь (road, direction, path) · ro mod (method or manner) · da vej (road, direction, path) · zza xelat (degree, amount, sense) · gcf jan (method or manner) · az sayaq (method or manner) · fi usko (paganism: dedication to a specific deity or craft) · pt caminho (road, direction, path) · lo ວິທີ (method or manner) · tk ýol (road, direction, path) · ga slí (method or manner) · pl metoda (method or manner) · tr yol (method or manner) · bo ལམ (road, direction, path) · pt modo (method or manner) · ro cale (road, direction, path) · mi riunga (road, direction, path) · ist veîa (road, direction, path) · frr wäi (road, direction, path) · oc camin (road, direction, path) · ug يول (road, direction, path) · hy ճանապարհ (method or manner) · la genus (method or manner) · wa façon (method or manner) · uk доро́га (road, direction, path) · alt јол (road, direction, path) · lt kẽlias (method or manner) · zza vay (diq) (road, direction, path) · shn တၢင်း (road, direction, path) · ty éà (road, direction, path) · evn хокто (road, direction, path) · bg на́чин (method or manner) · id cara (as the head of an interjectory clause) · br hent (road, direction, path) · nn veg (road, direction, path) · de Methode (method or manner) · nod ᨴᩤ᩠ᨦ (road, direction, path) · hy եղանակ (method or manner) · ee mɔ́ (road, direction, path) · eo maniero (method or manner) · hi पथ (road, direction, path) · fi veneluiska (timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water) · fi tienoo (roughly-defined geographical area) · az minval (method or manner) · hu mód (method or manner) · ja 手段 (method or manner) · yi אופֿן (method or manner) · he דרך (method or manner) · ru путь (method or manner) · it modo (method or manner) · ale akalux̂ (road, direction, path) · ckb جۆر (method or manner) · mk пат (road, direction, path) · he אמצעי (means to enter or leave) · da facon (method or manner) · za loh (road, direction, path) · izh viisi (method or manner) · kmr rê (road, direction, path) · zh 方法 (method or manner) · ar طَرِيقَة (method or manner) · ia modo (method or manner) · tyv орук (road, direction, path) · lb Wee (road, direction, path) · th วิธี (method or manner) · lt kelias (road, direction, path) · wa voye (road, direction, path) · lb Uluecht (method or manner) · lt bū̃das (method or manner) · ka ხერხი (method or manner) · it maniera (method or manner) · ga bealach (method or manner) · km ផ្លូវ (road, direction, path) · ang wīse (method or manner) · et tee (road, direction, path) · ps لار (road, direction, path) · ru путь (means to enter or leave) · ky жол (road, direction, path) · eve хот (road, direction, path) · izh tapa (method or manner) · lo ທາງ (road, direction, path) · grc ὁδός (method or manner) · sk spôsob (method or manner) · es camino (road, direction, path) · haw ala (road, direction, path) · sa पथ (road, direction, path) · pl sposób (method or manner) · la ratio (method or manner) · pl rozwiązanie (method or manner) · de Weg (road, direction, path) · hi तरीक़ा (method or manner) · gcf istil (method or manner) · tyz bưởng (road, direction, path) · el δρόμος (road, direction, path) · bg път (road, direction, path) · os фӕндаг (road, direction, path) · ka გზა (road, direction, path) · bn রাস্তা (road, direction, path) · ceb paagi (method or manner) · tyv арга (method or manner) · grc ὁδός (road, direction, path) · id metode (method or manner) · tr imkan (possibility) · ro fel (method or manner) · ba юл (method or manner) · gl ruta (road, direction, path) · ca manera (method or manner) · fr manière (method or manner) · he שיטה (method or manner) · az yol (method or manner) · gld покто (road, direction, path) · xto ytār (road, direction, path) · gor dalalo (road, direction, path) · fi vauhti (nautical: speed, progress, momentum — see also course) · mi ara (road, direction, path) · fi tapa (method or manner) · es sentido (method or manner) · th วิถีทาง (means to enter or leave) · fi tie (road, direction, path) · am መንገድ (road, direction, path) · ko 방법 (method or manner) · yi וועג (road, direction, path) · cu ⱌⱑⱄⱅⰰ (road, direction, path) · pt jeito (state or condition) · la camminus (road, direction, path) · sq mënyrë (method or manner) · ia medio (means to enter or leave) · ssy arax (road, direction, path) · ca camí (road, direction, path) · cu цѣста (road, direction, path) · vi lối (means to enter or leave) · he דֶּרֶךְ (road, direction, path) · fr chemin (road, direction, path) · pt via (road, direction, path) · kaw hĕnu (road, direction, path) · lv ceļš (road, direction, path) · fo vegur (road, direction, path) · hu út (road, direction, path) · ar طريقة (method or manner) · ko 길 (road, direction, path) · fro manere (method or manner) · pjt iwara (road, direction, path) · zza ray (method or manner) · fi kunto (state or condition) · pt caminho (determined course) · gug tape (road, direction, path) · sw mamna (means to enter or leave) · la via (road, direction, path) · hi रास्ता (road, direction, path) · cs způsob (method or manner) · fi kautta (means to enter or leave) · ota یول (means to enter or leave) · oc mejan (means to enter or leave) · ja 手口 (method or manner) · km វិធី (method or manner) · tt юл (road, direction, path) · fr moyen (means to enter or leave) · dz ལམ (road, direction, path) · be шлях (road, direction, path) · sah суол (road, direction, path) · zza edet (diq) (paganism: dedication to a specific deity or craft) · es usanza (method or manner) · ru ме́тод (method or manner) · rif abrid (road, direction, path) · my လမ်း (road, direction, path) · es modo (method or manner) · nb vei (road, direction, path) · bdk рих (road, direction, path) · hi शैली (method or manner) · ia via (road, direction, path) · csb spòsób (method or manner) · bn পথ (road, direction, path) · ur راہ (road, direction, path) · meu dara (road, direction, path) · otk 𐰖𐰆𐰞 (road, direction, path) · az cür (method or manner) · roa-opt caminho (road, direction, path) · zyp dang (road, direction, path) · hy ճանապարհ (road, direction, path) · ny msewu (road, direction, path) · sv sätt (method or manner) · fi ramppi (timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water) · fi tila (state or condition) · ga séad (road, direction, path) · za dauh (road, direction, path) · ia cammino (road, direction, path) · az üsul (method or manner) · txb ytārye (road, direction, path) · vi cách (method or manner) · mn зам (road, direction, path) · rom drom (road, direction, path) · ja 仕方 (method or manner) · el τρόπος (method or manner) · cjs чол (road, direction, path) · tr yol (road, direction, path) · izh mooto (method or manner) · it mezzo (means to enter or leave) · id cara (means to enter or leave) · fa روش (method or manner) · io voyo (road, direction, path) · non vegr (road, direction, path) · es forma (method or manner) · ia maniera (method or manner) · kk жол (road, direction, path) · ba юл (means to enter or leave) · grc κέλευθος (road, direction, path) · gl camiño (road, direction, path) · sid doogo (road, direction, path) · be пуць (road, direction, path) · mn ᠵᠠᠮ (road, direction, path) · it via (road, direction, path) · pt maneira (method or manner) · be даро́га (road, direction, path) · ang weġ (road, direction, path) · pt jeito (degree, amount, sense) · ga bealach (road, direction, path) · fa راه (method or manner) · ca via (road, direction, path) · mn арга (method or manner) · egy m-T:n-N31 (road, direction, path) · ota یول (road, direction, path)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *wegaz
Proto-West Germanic *weg
Old English weġ
Middle English wey
English way
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese and Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).
Meanings
(obsolete) To travel.
Laötze says, “The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name. The Way that can be wayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand. 1919, Gotō Shinpei, "Japanese Statesman on Christian Missions", The Missionary Review, Volume 42, p. 660
on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge[…]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
(attributive, informal, not-comparable) Extreme, far
Sitting in the way back of the bus
This will be a funny one with Snow’s 2 1st rounders going to be at the way bottom while 2 of his mid round picks will be towards the very top. 2023 July 10, @JLoading06, Twitter:
some day in the way future me and @HowdyDuda are gonna have to come for a visit… 2022 August 19, @DazzlerAOA, Twitter:
(informal, not-comparable, with an adverbial) Far.
The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
The initial exposure of aluminum, regardless of alloy, will form a thin oxide film on the surface the second it is exposed. This film continues to grow and, after a few days of exposure, the growth slows way down. 2020, L. William Zahner, “Corrosion Characteristics”, in Aluminum Surfaces: a Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:
I used to live way over there.
He kicked the ball way up.
A number of Dundee businessmen commuted across the bridge from their homes in Wormit, and some became concerned at the speeds that trains were crossing the bridge. Ex-Dundee Provost William Robertson timed one train at 43mph, way in excess of the 25mph speed limit. 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
(informal, not-comparable, with comparative or with too + adjective) Much, far, by a great degree.
I'm way too tired to do that.
Porcine dermal collagen is similar to human dermal collagen biochemically. In mouse skin, the dermis is once again way thinner than in humans. 2023 April 18 (last accessed), “Top differences between human and animal skin”, in Genoskin:
I'm a way better singer than Emma.
It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics. 2006, Keyboard, volume 32, numbers 1-6, page 132:
(not-comparable, slang, with positive adjective) Very.
String theory is way cool, except for the math.
I'm way tired.
With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead? 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16: