atall

Contraction of at all.

atall (not comparable)

1. (obsolete or Ireland) In any degree; at all.
   • 1576, John Foxe, Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer‎^[1], Camden Soc.:

     ...he did banquett hym, so that after diner there was conference of both thair armes togethers in divers poyntes nothing atall discrepaunte.

   • 1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:

     What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.

   • 1891, The Railroad Trainman‎^[2], The Brotherhood, pages 390–:

     ...if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...

• In Irish dialect, common as an intensifier in the form "atall, atall", or occasionally "atallatall".

• Allat, talla

Deverbal from atallar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈtaʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈtaʎ]

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atall m (plural atalls)

1. shortcut

   Synonym: drecera

2. a temporary dam or shutoff to divert the flow of a liquid for the purposes of construction or installation

• “atall”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from English atoll, from Portuguese atol, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu).

atall m (genitive singular ataill, nominative plural ataill)

1. atoll

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “atall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “atoll”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “atall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

atall (masculine and feminine atall, neuter atalt, definite singular and plural atalle)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of atal

• talla

From Proto-Germanic *atalaz, whence also Old English atol.

atall

1. fierce
2. hideous, loathsome

• Icelandic: atall, ötull
• Norwegian Nynorsk: atal

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “atall”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive