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leastways (adv.)
1825, obsolete colloquial, from
least
+
way
(n.). Regarded as vulgar, but simply a one-word form of Chaucer's
leest weye
(late 14c.). Compare
leastwise
(adv.) "in the least, at least," attested from 1610s, 1530s as two words.