whyever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /waɪˈɛvɚ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍaɪˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From why + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whyever would someone do that?
glosses: Why ever: an emphatic form of why.
examples: text: You can use it whenever you want and whyever you want.
text: Whatever we do, and whyever we do it, does not every motive originate in self, and does not every act proceed out of the individual's instinct for self-fulfilment ?
ref: 1918, Wilson Follett, The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction, page 79:
text: Whyever they began, there was no perceptible wolf at their door.
ref: 1975, Steven Polgar, Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, page 74:
text: "And whyever they were doing it, they were the ones responsible for what happened to her and all of the rest of my friends in the first place."
ref: 2006, David Weber, Linda Evans, Hell's Gate:
glosses: For whatever reason.
examples: text: I don't care what you want. Whyever you're here, please go away.
glosses: Regardless of the reason (why).
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
why on Earth
why in God's name
why oh why
why in Sam Hill