Green’s Dictionary of Slang

disorganized, messy.

1896		G.F. Northall Warwickshire Word-Book 11: Anyhow, Anyhows. In confusion; disordered, upset [...] ‘You should have seen the room; it was anyhow’.
1898		(con. 1875) F.T. Bullen Cruise of the ‘Cachalot’ 335: All hands ripping the blubber off a sizeable whale in the same ‘anyhow’ fashion.
1905		Sporting Times 1 Apr. 3/4: The man, with most of his limbs all anyhow, has been conveyed to the cottage hospital.
1908		N.Z. Truth 22 Feb. 6/1: The crew were all drunk and things were only anyhow.
1916		W. Pett Ridge Madame Prince 259: Face not done up [...] hair all anyhow!
1939		K. Tennant Foveaux 47: Tisn’t like a lot of places, just any old how.