any how

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

At any rate, on any account, in any way.

We have no confidence in cobble-stone pavement for Broadway any how.--New York Tribune, October 25, 1845.

This expression is not peculiar to this country.

All Nelson wanted was to go to Copenhagen; and he said, "Let it be by the the Sound, or by the Belt, or any how."--Nelson's Despatches, Vol. IV.

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