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the whole while

noun

Definitions

  1. Always

    Always; constantly, all the time; (for) the complete duration.

    • A high hot color has risen into her cheeks. “Mr. Lamb—do you, would you—could you mind him while I take Jeremy to Dr. Faber's?” She says this, Norris thinks, as though he has not been here the whole while, listening to matters develop.
    • "Anyway, after fifty years, what's a few more months?" "So you've been here the whole while? You never thought of going home?" "Oh, at first I did, but there was really no way to do it. I didn't bring a boat the way you folks did,[…]"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for the whole while. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA