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'Street-wise' aside, which is a valid combination with the adjective forming another adjective, there are two distinct adverbial suffixes.
The first one is the good old English one meaning 'in the manner of' or 'according to': crabwise, clockwise, sidewise.
The second one is the Pentagonese meaning 'with respect to', which gets added to anything.
The first is used in a few mathematical expressions: pairwise disjoint (= taking pair by pair), componentwise addition (= taking component by component). It is also used in heraldry: palewise = oriented in the direction of a pale, i.e. vertically; bendwise = oriented like a bend, i.e. diagonally.
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