autarchically

en-adv

autarchically (comparative more autarchically, superlative most autarchically)

more autarchically (comparative)
most autarchically (superlative)


knightlily

knightlily (comparative more knightlily, superlative most knightlily)

more knightlily (comparative)
most knightlily (superlative)


knightfully

knightfully (comparative more knightfully, superlative most knightfully)

more knightfully (comparative)
most knightfully (superlative)


bulgily

bulgily (comparative more bulgily, superlative most bulgily)

more bulgily (comparative)
most bulgily (superlative)


breathingly

breathingly (comparative more breathingly, superlative most breathingly)

more breathingly (comparative)
most breathingly (superlative)

Breathingly the winds descend upon the myriad moments, the shapes and the forms and the stories, the dusty pages and the standing statues.

2014, Todd Erick Pedersen, The Sapphire Song:


obscuringly

obscuringly (comparative more obscuringly, superlative most obscuringly)

more obscuringly (comparative)
most obscuringly (superlative)


auntishly

auntishly (comparative more auntishly, superlative most auntishly)

more auntishly (comparative)
most auntishly (superlative)

Besides, my matronly character, years, &c. entitle me to treat you if not maternally, a little auntishly.

1802 June 26, Anne Grant, “Letter XXXIV. To Miss Dunbar, Boath.”, in Letters from the Mountains; Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1807, 2nd edition, volume III, London: […] Luke Hansard & Sons, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, […]; J[ohn] Hatchard, […]; and Mrs. Cook, […], published 1807, page 130:

“[…] I saw a girl buying chops in a butcher’s while I was waiting and I thought Eric ought to paint her. He’d go mad at sight of her. She had everything a painter wants.” […] “What do you mean by everything?” she auntishly asked, becoming aware of what Val had said about a girl buying chops. “Raw beauty,” he teased, “unadorned and to be adorned by the painter; myth-making face; body excavated from mythology too.[…]”

[1957], Rhys Davies, chapter 5, in The Perishable Quality, Melbourne, Vic., London, Toronto, Ont.: Heinemann, page 124:

Whatever Mother and Father, and Aunt Rosa Bona auntishly doting and chirruping under her platter of feathers, may believe, I have never really seen their faces.

1963, Hal Porter, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography, London: Faber and Faber, […], page 32:

There were French and German horses among the entries and a great many foreign visitors – ‘quite a babel of tongues on the roof of the grandstand’ clucked The Times rather auntishly.

1968, Ivor Herbert, Patricia Smyly, “The Lamb”, in The Winter Kings, Pelham Books, published 1969, →ISBN, page 26:

It was so pleasant being bossed auntishly by Truman, told when to come and see him, when to go off by ourselves, where to eat and how we were to take whirlpool mineral baths, steam and massage at the Spa Hotel.

1968 February 21, Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell, Diaries, volumes two (1960–1969; The Sixties), London: Chatto & Windus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 497:

I need that assurance, will she ruffle self’s curls and smile auntishly, or will her caress mean something?

1969, Walter Harris, Clovis, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 22:

“You’re talking to a bunch of Southern writers who really enjoyed your show this morning. It’s like sitting down in the parlor listening to my aunt tell stories,” he said. “Everyone here has been so hospitable and supportive of me,” replied Miss [Eudora] Welty, auntishly proper and polite.

1980 November 21, Emma Edmunds, “Eudora Welty: The South’s Chekhov Hones Her Craft”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume 113, number 113, Atlanta, Ga., page 14-B, column 1:

Because of the interest he began to show in Pansy and the attention he gave her, Henry thought Kennedy ‘behaved terribly auntishly’ towards him.

1985, Keith Clements, “Pansy”, in Henry Lamb: The Artist and his Friends, Bristol: Redcliffe, →ISBN, section VI (Coombe Bissett 1928–1960), page 259:

Little Gottfried is waving a building brick under my nose and saying, ‘Aunt Miesenmaus, Goffi write to Uncle Dietrich too!’ – so I keep having to break off and be auntishly unschoolmarmish. I don’t think any aunt has ever been so besotted with her nephew. I wish I could bring him to see you some time.

1994, Maria von Wedemeyer, translated by John Brownjohn, edited by Ruth-Alice von Bismarck and Ulrich Kabitz, Love Letters from Cell 92: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maria Von Wedemeyer, 1943-1945, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 92:

She wanted to warn, “Don’t, Tamzin! Don’t expose your fragile heart! George is a good boy, but he . . . he’s a boy! He doesn’t think in the long-term, that you might fall to bits when it ends.” But, of course, she just smiled and patted their shoulders auntishly. And behind her back she crossed her fingers really hard.

2008, Sue Moorcroft, Family Matters, Oxford: ISIS, →ISBN, page 222:

Slowly, auntishly, Cathleen puts her hand out and pats Jonathan’s arm.

2009, Ruth Thomas, “Hey Ho, Silvo”, in Super Girl, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 197:

An older lady sits and clings to him for a while, auntishly. […] He sits auntishly in the comfy damp chair.

2015, Kevin Barry, Beatlebone, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 79 (Lady Narcosis (Sweet Country Music)) and 129 (Every Day Is a Holiday at the Amethyst Hotel):


scholarlily

scholarlily (comparative more scholarlily, superlative most scholarlily)

more scholarlily (comparative)
most scholarlily (superlative)

Evidently the Pliny-emblem playfully teaches a moral lesson to the scholarlily oriented reader.

2021, Karl A. E.. Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Jeanine de Landtsheer, Recreating Ancient History, page 282:


inaesthetically

inaesthetically (comparative more inaesthetically, superlative most inaesthetically)

more inaesthetically (comparative)
most inaesthetically (superlative)


once on a time

Tradition ran that once on a time the whole world was desolated by a famine.

1912, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 51:


flooringly

flooringly (comparative more flooringly, superlative most flooringly)

more flooringly (comparative)
most flooringly (superlative)


ditsily

ditsily (comparative more ditsily, superlative most ditsily)

more ditsily (comparative)
most ditsily (superlative)


ditzily

ditzily (comparative more ditzily, superlative most ditzily)

more ditzily (comparative)
most ditzily (superlative)


always already

From PK's perspective, PK is always already achieved. Since every geistige being always already participates in PK, the most 'complete bias' possible is when a thinker is utterly mistaken about PK: independently of how false a notion of[…]

2017 May 5, Thom Brooks, Sebastian Stein, Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

Hence individuals are 'abstract' with respect to the subjects, which they always-already are. [...] That an individual is always-already a subject, even before he is born, is nevertheless the plain reality, accessible to everyone[…]

2018 November 29, Calvin Thomas, Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 147:

(philosophy) By definition or inherently; a priori.


monohedrally

The extent of our ignorance is further illustrated by the fact that we do not know all the different shapes of convex pentagons which will tile the plane monohedrally.

1987, Branko Grünbaum, G[eoffrey] C[olin] Shephard, Tilings and Patterns, New York, N.Y.: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, page 22:

(geometry) In a monohedral manner; involving only copies of the original tile (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).


unprovokingly

unprovokingly (comparative more unprovokingly, superlative most unprovokingly)

more unprovokingly (comparative)
most unprovokingly (superlative)

That lady was with her in her last illness, and it was discovered after her death, that the whole of her large fortune was bequeathed to the interesting mother and daughter whose characters she had heard so unprovokingly assailed.

1829, Virginia Cary, Christian Parent's Assistant, Or, Tales, for the Moral and Religious Instruction of Youth, page 196:


ethnocratically

en-adverb

ethnocratically (comparative more ethnocratically, superlative most ethnocratically)

more ethnocratically (comparative)
most ethnocratically (superlative)


agitatingly

en-adv

agitatingly (comparative more agitatingly, superlative most agitatingly)

more agitatingly (comparative)
most agitatingly (superlative)


conclusorily

conclusorily (comparative more conclusorily, superlative most conclusorily)

more conclusorily (comparative)
most conclusorily (superlative)


unfindably

unfindably (comparative more unfindably, superlative most unfindably)

more unfindably (comparative)
most unfindably (superlative)


off-set

off-set (comparative more off-set, superlative most off-set)

more off-set (comparative)
most off-set (superlative)


storylessly

In the stringing of barbed - wires or the angular piling up of rails, however, the proximity and conditions for familiar talk are not to be had so easily, and the work goes storylessly and more speedily on.

1899, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper:

Any text disciplining imagination by appearing not to be writing at all — the essence of fast capitalism — requires narration; it narrates itself storylessly.

1989, Ben Agger, Fast Capitalism: A Critical Theory of Significance:

Now things would have gone peacefully and storylessly along but for one big question neither creature could get out of his head.

2000, Tales from West Africa, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 70:

2013 October 31, Ben Agger, A Critical Theory Of Public Life: Knowledge, Discourse And Politics In An Age Of Decline, Routledge, →ISBN:

Still, when there is no reason to doubt the facts, if the biological etiology is known and an effective therapy is available, the path from sign to diagnosis and treatment is wonderfully, almost storylessly direct.

2020 June 30, Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 103:


nowhen else

By analogy with nowhere else. See nowhen.

[…] that not a weed grows in a particular spot, without a special Providence of God that it should grow there, and nowhere else; then, and nowhen else.

1884, Charles Kingsley, The Works of Charles Kingsley, page 214:

Amidst a spectacle, staged nowhere and nowhen else in the world, they heard the voice of the Almighty giving the Ten Commandments. So impressed were they that they declared that all which God had spoken they would solemnly do.

1920, George Betts Swann, Sermons, page 98:

The temporal order compels you to be exactly when you are at any moment, and nowhen else. Thirdly, everything in time occupies the whole of the time during which it exists. You entirely fill one part of the temporal dimension.

1999 February 1, Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, Penguin, →ISBN:

“He has nowhen else to go.” “Maybe I should go help him plot a course,” Efren offers. “You aren't coming with us,” Thyme says. Efren opens his mouth to say something. Closes it. Opens it again and only wordless breath expires.

2022 May 9, Edward Newton, The Infinite Minute, World Castle Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:


porcinely

porcinely (comparative more porcinely, superlative most porcinely)

more porcinely (comparative)
most porcinely (superlative)


ecostratigraphically

By means of, or in terms of, ecostratigraphy.


ecospiritually

ecospiritually (comparative more ecospiritually, superlative most ecospiritually)

more ecospiritually (comparative)
most ecospiritually (superlative)


dragonly

dragonly (comparative more dragonly, superlative most dragonly)

more dragonly (comparative)
most dragonly (superlative)


just gone

Now it's time for the news at just gone half past eight.


too close to the sun

As she has shifted away from network television and into more roles in film, she’s taking notes from Hollywood greats like Austin Butler and Jeremy Strong and tried method acting while on the set of 2016‘s Dirty Grandpa. However, she may have method acted too close to the sun as she acted “totally insane” around her co-star Robert De Niro.

2022 October 10, Alejandra Gularte, “Aubrey Plaza Aubrey Plaza’d Too Hard Around Robert De Niro”, in Vulture:

In an overly ambitious or greedy manner.


altricially

altricially (comparative more altricially, superlative most altricially)

more altricially (comparative)
most altricially (superlative)


to morrow

I am pepperd for this world, I am ſped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me, & ye aske for me to morrow you ſhall finde me a graue-man.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

This day, thou ſhalt haue ingots : and, to morrow, / Giue lords th’ affront.

1610, Ben Jonson, “The Alchemist”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson, London: Will Stansby, published 1616, act II, scene ii, page 620:

He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.

1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 72:

Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Exodus, ix, 18

She longed to enquire of the housekeeper, whether her master were really absent, but had not courage for it. At length, however, the question was asked by her uncle; and she turned away with alarm, while Mrs. Reynolds replied, that he was, adding, “but we expect him to morrow, with a large party of friends.”

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 5:


gravitically

From gravitic (“of or pertaining to gravity”) + -ally.

suf

This time, we'll be moving gravitically - straight up - as soon as we can be assured the atmosphere above is clear of other ships.

1982, Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge, London, […]: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 283:


groundside

Even then she gave them quite a battle. It was like a pair of minnows landing a four-foot bass, but they hauled her down and booted her groundside with a skill that eventually got the two pilots a citation.

1951 November, Paul W[arren] Fairman, “Proud Asteroid”, in Amazing Stories, volume 25, number 11, page 46:

(science fiction) Towards or on the surface of a planet.


hubward

en-adv

hubward (comparative more hubward, superlative most hubward)

more hubward (comparative)
most hubward (superlative)

From hub (“the central part of a wheel”) + -ward.

suf

At 1700 station time, he headed hubward to where Captain Arran Syke, formerly captain of Mother Ramona's private guard, now head of Crossways Militia, had his office.

2017 October, Jacey Bedford, Nimbus: A Psi-Tech Novel, New York: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 55:

(science fiction) Towards the center (of a rotating spaceship or space station).


dam'

(These duck-shoots in the dark are dam’ dangerous, y’know.)

1915, Rudyard Kipling, Debits and Credits, Bombay: The Gresham Publishing Company Limited; London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 32:

"Always wanted a go at the figure. Funked it. Shows what a man can do, given the right model. Dam' good model."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:

“People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”

1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


half-wittedly

en-adv

half-wittedly (comparative more half-wittedly, superlative most half-wittedly)

more half-wittedly (comparative)
most half-wittedly (superlative)


ostentatively

ostentatively (comparative more ostentatively, superlative most ostentatively)

more ostentatively (comparative)
most ostentatively (superlative)


unenticingly

unenticingly (comparative more unenticingly, superlative most unenticingly)

more unenticingly (comparative)
most unenticingly (superlative)


before-hand

[…] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.

1594, Richard Hooker, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5:

But the practice of dispensations was much more foul: witness their Penitentiary Tax, wherein a man might see the price of his sin before-hand; their common nundination of pardons, their absolving subjects from their oaths of allegiance […]

1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism:

For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, / To an unknown Church-discipline, / What is it else, but before-hand / T'engage, and after understand?

1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2, lines 638–641:

Agricola, who perceav'd that the noiſe of this defeat had alſo in the Province deſirous of novelty, ſtirr'd up new expectations, reſolves to be before-hand with the danger: […]

1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England, Book II:

And though antient Tragedy use no Prologue, yet using sometimes, in case of self defence, or explanation, that which Martial calls an Epistle; in behalf of this Tragedy coming forth after the antient manner, much different from what among us passes for best, thus much before-hand may be Epistl’d; that Chorus is here introduc’d after the Greek manner, not antient only but modern, and still in use among the Italians.

1671, John Milton, “Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy”, in Paradise Regain’d, to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, page 4:

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 47:


chuckingly

chuckingly (comparative more chuckingly, superlative most chuckingly)

more chuckingly (comparative)
most chuckingly (superlative)

From chucking + -ly; see chuck (“to chuckle”).


daubingly

daubingly (comparative more daubingly, superlative most daubingly)

more daubingly (comparative)
most daubingly (superlative)

Be ever ready to flatter, not grossly or daubingly, as with a heavy trowel, but delicately, with slight shades, as with a finely pointed camel's hair brush whose fine strokes are almost imperceptible.

1849, John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days (page 217)


desiringly

desiringly (comparative more desiringly, superlative most desiringly)

more desiringly (comparative)
most desiringly (superlative)

The old lecher gazed desiringly at the girls in their swimsuits.


detainingly

detainingly (comparative more detainingly, superlative most detainingly)

more detainingly (comparative)
most detainingly (superlative)

The policeman's hand fell detainingly on my shoulder. "Just a moment, sir!" he said.


despite oneself

in spite of oneself
in spite of oneself#English

Synonym of in spite of oneself (“against one's initial plan or desire”)


clippingly

clippingly (comparative more clippingly, superlative most clippingly)

more clippingly (comparative)
most clippingly (superlative)

Things were going on clippingly.

1863, William Wotherspoon Ireland, Randolph Methyl: A Story of Anglo-Indian Life, volume 2, page 72:

(UK, slang, obsolete) Excellently; very well.


dippingly

dippingly (comparative more dippingly, superlative most dippingly)

more dippingly (comparative)
most dippingly (superlative)


fluctuatingly

fluctuatingly (comparative more fluctuatingly, superlative most fluctuatingly)

more fluctuatingly (comparative)
most fluctuatingly (superlative)


rakingly

rakingly (comparative more rakingly, superlative most rakingly)

more rakingly (comparative)
most rakingly (superlative)


pallingly

pallingly (comparative more pallingly, superlative most pallingly)

more pallingly (comparative)
most pallingly (superlative)

So as to pall, becoming dull or insipid.


escapingly

Then all present guzzled escapingly, putting behind them the relationship of their host and hostess.

1978, Brian Victor Bell, Paper Tiger: Prose Fictions by Five Writers, page 117:


maunderingly

maunderingly (comparative more maunderingly, superlative most maunderingly)

more maunderingly (comparative)
most maunderingly (superlative)


reformingly

reformingly (comparative more reformingly, superlative most reformingly)

more reformingly (comparative)
most reformingly (superlative)

So as to reform something; by way of reformation.


roastingly

roastingly (comparative more roastingly, superlative most roastingly)

more roastingly (comparative)
most roastingly (superlative)

roastingly hot weather


seekingly

seekingly (comparative more seekingly, superlative most seekingly)

more seekingly (comparative)
most seekingly (superlative)


crystallinely

crystallinely (comparative more crystallinely, superlative most crystallinely)

more crystallinely (comparative)
most crystallinely (superlative)


blurredly

blurredly (comparative more blurredly, superlative most blurredly)

more blurredly (comparative)
most blurredly (superlative)

Two trunks now followed, with "L. T." blurredly marked upon the ends.

1852 July, Herman Melville, “(please specify the book number)”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

It suddenly occurred to Arthur that, coming as this did at the end, so to speak, or rather the beginning of all the horror they had just blurredly experienced, something nasty must be about to happen.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything:


scientifictionally

scientifictionally (comparative more scientifictionally, superlative most scientifictionally)

more scientifictionally (comparative)
most scientifictionally (superlative)

The Silver Egg-Heads, originally a novelet, was expanded to novel length for a Ballantine Books paperback. It was done in the broad, blatant tones of a Robert Bloch broadside, intending to scientifictionally spoof writers, agents, publishers, and their associates.

1963 December, Sam Moskowitz, “Fritz Leiber: Destiny x 3”, in Amazing Stories, volume 37, number 12, page 88, column 2:


instantially

The grammar takes a long view; it carries its own history along with it, both systemically (in the evolving of the language) and instantially (in the unfolding of a text).

2005, M.A.K. Halliday, “Towards 'intelligent computing' (computing with meaning)”, in Jonathan J. Webster, editor, Computational and Quantitative Studies (Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday), volume 6, Continuum, →ISBN, page 224:

In an instantial way, as:
In instances rather than systemically.

Have you tried using perform_now just for the sake of testing? It's equivalent to perform_later, but instead of enqueuing, it runs instantially.

2021 October 12, João Fernandes, “Rails test job and raise errors if any”, in Stack Overflow, retrieved 2023-04-27:

(computing) As instances arise, rather than enqueuing.


topside-turvy

topside-turvy (comparative more topside-turvy, superlative most topside-turvy)

more topside-turvy (comparative)
most topside-turvy (superlative)

Thou toyl'ſt in perrill, and the vvindie ſtorme, / Doth topſide-turuey toſſe thee as thou floteſt.

1594, Robert Garnier, translated by Thomas Kid [i.e., Thomas Kyd], Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie: […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Nicholas Ling, published 1595, →OCLC, act I, signature A2, verso:


malapropistically

malapropistically (not generally comparable, comparative more malapropistically, superlative most malapropistically)

more malapropistically (comparative)
most malapropistically (superlative)

Subterranean descent can land in an underworld, be it Hell or Elysium or the other side of the earth, the Antipodes, which Alice malapropistically calls "the Antipathies"—not so exact an opposite to our side as the Looking-Glass Country, but a topsy-turvydom of sorts like Butler's Erewhon.

1994, Harold Bloom, Classic Fantasy Writers, Chelsea House, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02, page 45:

exhibition / (A) This word has two meanings: a financial allowance or endowment (a term still current in some British universities) and a gift or present. It is also used once malapropistically by Verges to Dogberry mistaking the word for 'commission' (ADO 4.2.5).

2015, Vivian Thomas, Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02:

The crowd slips from chanting "No Popery," to, malapropistically, "No Property," then Grip the Raven begins chanting "No Popery," and Barnaby Rudge the idiot takes up the cause, as if to say ideology can be easily parroted and is, for all its public claims, idiotic.

2019, Nicholas Birns, The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space, Lexington Books, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02, page 178:


unintermittently

For fifteen centuries before the last, it was erroneously supposed that all maladies lay in the humours of the body; and hence blood-letting was practised periodically to prevent disease, and almost unintermittently to cure it, though such treatment could only be right in a few out of many cases.

1834 January 4, “Is Ignorance Bliss?”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume II, number 101, page 386, column 2:

I was once in the Grand Hôtel during the usual “exceptional season,” when it rained unintermittently for a fortnight; the place was empty; “tristeful,” as Adolf styled it.

1892 September 3, “Inns and Outs. No. II.—The Head-Wetter.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CIII, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 105, column 2:

It retains only those miracles which are symbols of a continuous permanent miracle, through which the Saviour of the World works constantly, unintermittently, among men.

1910, Albert Schweitzer, “The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism”, in W[illiam] Montgomery, transl., The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 35:

A steady rain poured down unintermittently from the time I left my hotel in downtown Toronto until I returned dripping into the lobby and removed my soaking hat.

2001 July 22, Rhoda Amon, “Toronto: ‘New York, as Run by the Swiss’”, in Newsday, volume 61, number 322, page E13, column 1:

Not intermittently; in an unintermittent manner.


bulldoggishly

bulldoggishly (comparative more bulldoggishly, superlative most bulldoggishly)

more bulldoggishly (comparative)
most bulldoggishly (superlative)

He enters the shop with his dog, a tough, stumpy, well-fed mutt. The dog is white with a black patch over one eye, looking rather like the dog in the R.C.A. Victor ads, except that he is shorter and even more bulldoggishly muscular.

1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:


dreadily

en-adverb

dreadily (comparative more dreadily, superlative most dreadily)

more dreadily (comparative)
most dreadily (superlative)


for Heaven's sake

But the Mancunians are of all men the most disposed to peace. Their name has become a bye-word because they are said to require peace at any price. If the Mancunians are satisfied, for Heaven's sake do not let us put it into their heads that they could gain anything by change.

1859, [Arthur Helps], “War”, in Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse thereon (New Series), 2nd edition, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker & Son, West Strand, →OCLC, page 137:

“Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”

1897, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 14, in The King’s Highway, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 324:

"The position you'd put me in would be this—of playing a game—and a jolly important game at that—in which the loser loses to me on purpose. . . . If we're going to play a game," he continued, addressing Davenant, before the latter had time to speak, "for Heaven's sake let us play it straight—like men. Let the winner win and the loser lose—"

1911, Basil King, chapter 16, in The Street Called Straight:

for heaven's sake
for heaven's sake#English

Alternative letter-case form of for heaven's sake.


revoltedly

en-adv

revoltedly (comparative more revoltedly, superlative most revoltedly)

more revoltedly (comparative)
most revoltedly (superlative)

She felt, revoltedly, as though Mrs. Tottenham were stepping out of her clothes.

1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Return”, in Encounters, page 45:

In a revolted manner; with shock or disgust.


upon the instant

Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 42:

Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Doctor Lanyon’s Narrative”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 103:

"That ball!" he cried, in a hoarse and raucous voice. "That ivory ball! Give it to me upon the instant!"

1908, Howard Pyle, “The Terrific Encounter With the One-eyed Little Gentleman in Black”, in The Ruby of Kishmoor, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 34:

(idiomatic, dated) Immediately, right away.


gender-neutrally

gender-neutrally (comparative more gender-neutrally, superlative most gender-neutrally)

more gender-neutrally (comparative)
most gender-neutrally (superlative)

If “man” could be used gender-neutrally, its occurrence in a context that applies to both male and female humans, particularly to female humans, would be given a gender-neutral interpretation. Instead, its occurrence in such a context is plainly gender-specific.

1977, Janice Moulton, “The Myth of the Neutral “Man””, in Mary Vetterling-Braggin, Frederick A. Elliston, Jane English, editors, Feminism and Philosophy, Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, page 134:

The primary addressee of the text is consistently addressed gender-neutrally as þu (ȝe when joined by a fellow worker), but the fellow worker is referred to with masculine pronouns: (6) Þu most take a ffelow and set hym on by ryȝt hond, and set on hys hondes iij bowes (96/ 32–34, emphasis added).

2003, Ruth Carroll, “Recipes for laces: An example of a Middle English discourse colony”, in Risto Hiltunen, Janne Skaffari, editors, Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to Modern, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143:

You may even become self-conscious or appalled at your own gender-biased baby talk. This is a good thing! Let your discomfort turn into action, and become more aware to interact more gender-neutrally.

2007, Jessica Mills, My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us, AK Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106:

I’ve noticed over many years of news media consumption that, for example, when victims of sexual abuse are girls their gender is readily reported as such; but when they’re boys they’re usually referred to gender-neutrally as children.

2022 August 25, Frank Sterle Jr., “The words we use matter”, in Clearwater North Thompson Times, volume 58, number 34, page A5:


gender-specifically

gender-specifically (comparative more gender-specifically, superlative most gender-specifically)

more gender-specifically (comparative)
most gender-specifically (superlative)

Christine Todd Whitman is not “one of the boys,” not just gender-specifically speaking, but philosophically speaking. Mrs. Whitman may be misguided, but she is sincere. The boys are out for themselves.

1993 October 6, John Turner, “A theory about the ‘big boys’ behind Christie”, in The Courier-News, page A-11:

Now, we weren’t talking about imports who only wear Oil Barons colours for a couple of seasons and then move on, but kids, or more gender-specifically, males who went through the minor hockey system and have roots planted firmly in the local tarsands.

2006 November 25, Curtis Phillips, “Who’s on your top ten list?”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 10, number 47, page 12:

Despite the shoes, sunglasses and jewelry openly displayed, Ali claims her taste isn’t overly feminine, calling her home the “not-too-girly” house. “If I get one girly thing, then I get one masculine thing,” she says. But even if she lived alone, Ali wouldn’t decorate too gender-specifically. “My whole concept is traditional with a modern, clean twist,” she says.

2013 August 7, Andrea Darr, “at home with Ali Bronska”, in Ink, volume 6, number 20, page 18:

The first case opens with the phrase אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי, which may be understood either inclusively (everyone who) or gender-specifically (every man who).

2017, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15, T&T Clark, published 2022, →ISBN, page 59:


Frenchily

Frenchily (comparative more Frenchily, superlative most Frenchily)

more Frenchily (comparative)
most Frenchily (superlative)

French grenadiers stood as sentinels, the old gentlemen town councillors had put on new faces, and donned their Sunday coats and looked at each other Frenchily, and said "Bon jour!"

1882, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel, page 181:

Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek, he bowed himself almost double.


guaranteedly

(rare) In a guaranteed manner; assuredly, certainly.


warrantedly

warrantedly (comparative more warrantedly, superlative most warrantedly)

more warrantedly (comparative)
most warrantedly (superlative)

In a warranted manner; with justification.


right-about-face

right-about-face (comparative more right-about-face, superlative most right-about-face)

more right-about-face (comparative)
most right-about-face (superlative)

The urge to reach the Klondike had become a habit more than an obsession, and when at last on June 30 they walked glumly down the gangplank at Dawson most of them turned right-about-face and went home again.

1958, Pierre Berton, Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, London: W. H. Allen, published 1960, pages 210–211:


Aristotelianly

Aristotelianly (comparative more Aristotelianly, superlative most Aristotelianly)

more Aristotelianly (comparative)
most Aristotelianly (superlative)

Speaking Platonically and normatively, we attribute style to an author or charge him with lacking style; speaking Aristotelianly, we use the term as a description, hold that every author has a style, and turn our attention to analysing the specific character of this author or that.

1951, Austin Warren, “The Style of Sir Thomas Browne”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 13, number 4, pages 674–687:

We have a special name for this making, we call it 'creation', but it is not difficult to see that creation names an Aristotelianly impossible kind of making, just as transubstantiation names an Aristotelianly impossible kind of change; and for approximately the same reason.

1972 December, Herbert McCabe, “Transubstantiation: A reply to G. Egner”, in New Blackfriars, volume 53, number 631, pages 546–554:

As Stephen Erickson puts it in his essay, "Jaspers is more Aristotelianly in the world and Heidegger more Platonically, even Orphically, looking out beyond it."

1996, Thomas K. Carr, “Review of Heidegger and Jaspers by Alan M. Olson”, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, volume 64, number 2, pages 452–455:


plus or minus

"[…] I'll be out to join you in ten minutes, plus or minus," said Sandra, smiling, as she got out.

2000, George W. Barclay, Murder on the Brazos, page 196:


reachably

reachably (comparative more reachably, superlative most reachably)

more reachably (comparative)
most reachably (superlative)

Store anything light by hanging it as high as reachably possible. This keeps it out of the stumbling-over path, yet readily accessible.

1984, Don Aslett, Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to De-Junk Your Life!, Cincinnati, O.H.: Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 92:

Along the corridor, where they kept the dry stores, he met another heavy and jammed door. It tilted slightly forward, and because its handle sat reachably above his head, he had a better chance of levering it ajar.

2006, Frank Delaney, Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 107–108:

She seems almost incapable of abstraction or fraudulence; she instinctively grabs for the reachably real.

2012 April 30, James Wood, “Invitation To a Beheading”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:

The fair, which is on view till Sunday, is now reachably moored in Manhattan, a block or so from the Hudson, at the Shed on West 30th Street.

2023 May 18, Holland Cotter, “At Frieze New York 2023, One-Person Shows That Shine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:


unthematically

unthematically (comparative more unthematically, superlative most unthematically)

more unthematically (comparative)
most unthematically (superlative)


eassil

eassil (comparative more eassil, superlative most eassil)

more eassil (comparative)
most eassil (superlative)


eassel

eassel (comparative more eassel, superlative most eassel)

more eassel (comparative)
most eassel (superlative)

(Scotland) In an eastly manner or direction.


in no small part

in no small measure
in no small measure#English

(idiomatic) Synonym of in no small measure


eaglesque

eaglesque (comparative more eaglesque, superlative most eaglesque)

more eaglesque (comparative)
most eaglesque (superlative)

Those haggard hands which hovered, eaglesque, over the world, met with no check.

1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xiii. 116:


glazily

glazily (comparative more glazily, superlative most glazily)

more glazily (comparative)
most glazily (superlative)


tendenciously

tendenciously (comparative more tendenciously, superlative most tendenciously)

more tendenciously (comparative)
most tendenciously (superlative)


diachronously

Using the literature of human and medical genetics, the results of a synchronous citation study of obsolescence over a 19-year period were compared with the results of a diachronous citation study. If the first two years of synchronous data are excluded, the rate of obsolescence measured synchronously is statistically equivalent to the rate of obsolescence measured diachronously.

1987, E. Ray Stinson, F.W. Lancaster, “Synchronous versus diachronous methods in the measurement of obsolescence by citation studies”, in Journal of Information Science, volume 13, number 2, →DOI:

The Pyrenees represents an orogen that developed diachronously, from east to west, between the Late Cretaceous and Miocene.

2011, A. L. WhitchurchA. CarterH. D. Sinclairet al., “Sediment routing system evolution within a diachronously uplifting orogen: insights from detrital zircon thermochronological analyses from the South-Central Pyrenees”, in American Journal of Science, volume 311, number 5, →DOI, pages 442–482:

We propose that multiple Great Unconformities developed diachronously and represent regional tectonic features rather than a synchronous global phenomenon.

2020, RM Flowers, FA Macdonald, CS Siddoway, R Havranek, “Diachronous development of Great Unconformities before Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth”, in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, volume 117, number 19, →DOI, →PMID, pages 10172–10180:

In a diachronous manner; carried out or occurring with diachrony.


fogeyishly

fogeyishly (comparative more fogeyishly, superlative most fogeyishly)

more fogeyishly (comparative)
most fogeyishly (superlative)


defs

Possibly def + -s (“used in the formation of certain English adverbs”).

suf

"I agree she's defs picking on you," Molly began, and then fell suddenly silent, her gaze locked on a figure striding across the lawn.

2010, Alexandra Adornetto, Halo, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN, page 184:

Liar was the one thing making Mondays that little bit more satisfying since it started on ITV six weeks ago. But with last night's season finale, we're left feeling a bit empty. The good news is, there's DEFS going to be a series two. YAY.

2017 October 17, Ciara Sheppard, “Liar Season 2 is happening, but there's something we're really, really confused about...”, in Glamour, Greenwich, C.T., […]: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-24:

Online forums were ablaze with discussion: "It's defs a puppy!" tweeted GeekyGal82. "Nah, look at it sideways and it's a croissant," replied The Brodester65, "It's a puppy!!!! I kill you!!!! I KILL YOU!!!!" tweeted EverybodyLuvsTheirMama. Tensions escalated fast

2019 August 16, Danny Katz, “Puppy or croissant? Another photo sets the internet (and world) ablaze”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-15:

The famous fam's matriarch appeared on The Ellen Show where she revealed that while she's not keen on being a full-time housewife, she's defs keen on being a 'friend'.

2020 September 25, Matt Galea, “There's A Good Chance Kris Jenner & Kathy Hilton Are Joining RHOBH As 'Friends' & My Nips Are Hard”, in Pedestrian, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:


advancedly

en-adv

advancedly (comparative more advancedly, superlative most advancedly)

more advancedly (comparative)
most advancedly (superlative)

In an advanced manner; to an advanced degree.


world-historically

world-historically (comparative more world-historically, superlative most world-historically)

more world-historically (comparative)
most world-historically (superlative)

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor met while filming Cleopatra in the late 1950s, and both were married. Their affair was considered hardly less sensational and world-historically important than that of the characters they played.

2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian:

Seen this way, the video feels more mercenary: Its severe mood was, in part, a performance, meant to reassure a world-historically anxious and distrustful audience that they had not been led astray for the last eight years.

2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine:


dysgenetically

dysgenetically (comparative more dysgenetically, superlative most dysgenetically)

more dysgenetically (comparative)
most dysgenetically (superlative)


dysgenically

dysgenically (comparative more dysgenically, superlative most dysgenically)

more dysgenically (comparative)
most dysgenically (superlative)

Refusing the idea that poor whites of the South were racially degenerate or dysgenically mixed, they argued instead that poor whites were suffering from chronic disease, the effects of which were commonly mistaken for degeneracy.

2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96:


cybertextually

Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.

2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:


unchauvinistically

unchauvinistically (comparative more unchauvinistically, superlative most unchauvinistically)

more unchauvinistically (comparative)
most unchauvinistically (superlative)


post-transcriptionally

Alternative form of posttranscriptionally


therewithall

Agis agayne aunſwered him: that he maruelled not that Leonidas beeing brought vp in a ſtraung contry, and alſo maryed there in a noble mans houſe, he ſhould be ignorant of Lycurgus lawes, who baniſhing gold and ſiluer out of his citie, did therewithall exile dette and lending.

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 852:


in one's own little way

They are all helping each other, as loving sisters should; and perhaps some day they will meet, and will realize how each in her own little way has done some service for the others.

1885, Jane Andrews, The Seven Little Sisters Prove Their Sisterhood, page 159:

In their own little way, they made me feel like I was special — just being me.

1994, Tisha Pia Escober De La Rosa, Communication Patterns Between the Consolidated Union of Employees' Leaders and Members:

In her own little way, Thérèse tried to remedy that community deficiency.

2012, Brother Joseph Schmidt, Walking the Little Way of Therese of Lisieux:

Like the little white Sheep, the most important thing I admire about you, honestly, is how in your own little way you seem to amaze people, especially me; how you can take the bad experiences that have occurred in your hidden past, and turn them into positive achievements.

2022, Phillip Berrian, Testimonial Of One's True Greatness, page 450:

(idiomatic) In an individual manner that creates an effect from a small action.


fairly and squarely

"We do not want to go on strike. We do not want to inconvenience passengers. And we believe in investing in rail for the future of this country. The blame lies fairly and squarely at the feet of the employers who have forced our hand. It is up to them to come up with a sensible and realistic offer, and up to the government not to hinder this process."

2023 May 31, Mel Holley, “Network News: ASLEF recommends £71,000 pay deal for TfW drivers”, in RAIL, number 984, page 21:


post-phenomenologically

Alternative form of postphenomenologically


uncollaboratively

uncollaboratively (comparative more uncollaboratively, superlative most uncollaboratively)

more uncollaboratively (comparative)
most uncollaboratively (superlative)


unsyntactically

unsyntactically (comparative more unsyntactically, superlative most unsyntactically)

more unsyntactically (comparative)
most unsyntactically (superlative)

In a way that is syntactically incorrect; having incorrect syntax.


beyond compare

beyond compare (comparative more beyond compare, superlative most beyond compare)

more beyond compare (comparative)
most beyond compare (superlative)

Better than anything else with which it might be compared; supreme; best.


per chevron

per chevron gules and argent; tierced per chevron; an escutcheon tierced per pale and per chevron

(heraldry) (Partitioned) along the bent line(s) of a chevron, (especially) into two areas (formally party per chevron).

(tierced, etc) en chevron

heraldry: partitioned along the bent line of a chevron


per fess

per fess gules and argent; tierced per fess

(heraldry) (Partitioned) horizontally; (especially) partitioned horizontally into two halves (formally party per fess).

coupé

heraldry: partitioned horizontally: party per fess


equanimitably

equanimitably (comparative more equanimitably, superlative most equanimitably)

more equanimitably (comparative)
most equanimitably (superlative)

Mother stuck her head out in the hall, took a deep breath. “Nurse!” she hollered again. “Geez, Mother,” I burst out. “You’re going to have the entire hospital in here. Can’t you behave?” My mother seemed to consider this for a moment. She squeezed up her eyes and looked thoughtful. Then she brightened. “I don’t think so,” she said equanimitably. She drifted closer to the call button.

1988 September 6, Jeanne Freeman, “Giving in”, in The Greenville News, Greenville, S.C., page 1B, column 1:

In attitude so loving sweet, madly, life, how did you expect to die, well, equanimitably? — with a bloody snap of the fingers, dearie? with a bleeding cast of facial contemptuosity, ducky?

1995, Gary Esarey, “Boxing the fox”, in How Crows Talk and Willows Walk, Boise, Ida.: Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, →ISBN, page 41:

Rules: […] 5) Whatever I forgot will be handled equanimitably.

1997 November 24, Ray Bert, “Chaos Orb Auction, 11/24”, in rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.auctions (Usenet):

Mumbling around a mouthful, Jean-Paolo said, “You think she’s forgiven me for that incident with the fountain and the tree?” “Not Vevila.” “Oh well.” Jean-Paolo shrugged equanimitably.

2002, Rebecca Lickiss, Never After, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 191:

With open palms and trusting face, softly, gently, equanimitably, Benji explained the true identity of the midnight child to the guard, who, after flipping Finn's features through his mental Rolodex, announced the wanderer’s return via intercom to the keeper of apartment 13-A, and sheepishly let the pair proceed to the elevator bank.

2003, Andrew Lewis Conn, P, New York, N.Y.: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, pages 314–315:

Tips on how to go from equanimitably smiley to ragingly angry with the world in under ten minutes: climb Arthur’s Seat on the hottest day of all time. For added ire, have a gang of young twats playing Cohen dirge Hallelujah at the top.

2019 August 25, Jem Roberts Books (@JemRoberts), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-06-12:

So you recognize spatial banishment and denial of citizenship to long native families on grounds of ethnicity/religion as #apartheid, eh? Do you apply that definition equanimitably, including on banishment of families with even thicker deep roots in a given homeland?

2022 November 14, Nathan Pearson (@GenomeNathan), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-06-12:


smudgedly

smudgedly (comparative more smudgedly, superlative most smudgedly)

more smudgedly (comparative)
most smudgedly (superlative)


collectionally

collectionally (comparative more collectionally, superlative most collectionally)

more collectionally (comparative)
most collectionally (superlative)

Moreover, any available sixth within each such collection (and collectionally distinct patch or passage) may link with any other.

1997, Elaine Barkin, E: An Anthology : Music Texts & Graphics (1975-1995), page 36:

Was Carter in fact thinking collectionally at all in the works of his early period.

2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22:

In this way, the problem posed by incomplete or deformed versions of the ideal shape earlier in the piece is solved, by means of one of the techniques that originally contributed to the deformity in the first place (i.e., giving order positions 1,2 and 3,4 of the nexachord as verticals in rows that are collectionally invariant according to the pattern given in section b of Example 4.5).

2014, Jack Boss, Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea, page 242:

Pertaining to collections (sets of pitch classes)


f'real

Can we talk about how adorable Mimi is in this? Who could get mad at that? But f'real I do not recommend this look for anyone over age eight, especially with those white tights but GIRL. Precious.

2013 December 25, Amalia Graziani, “What I Learned About Style from Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You"”, in Vice:

‘Working out with Patrick makes me feel more confident in everyday life. I feel stronger and healthier — even more so than I did in my 20s,’ Alexandra tells WH UK. Ok f’real, where do we sign up?

2023 March 20, Rebecca Gillam, Bridie Wilkins, “Alexandra Daddario and her PT on how she built her Baywatch bod + her 10 regular workout rules”, in Women's Health:


scrotally

In the past few years, T patches have also been released for prescription usage. Both scrotally applied and nonscrotally applied vehicles are available. These forms of delivery offer more constant T levels and avoid the inconvenience of im injection.

1999, Carrie J. Bagatell, William J. Bremmer, “Androgen and Estrogen Effects on Plasma Lipids in Men”, in Leonard Share, editor, Hormones and the Heart in Health and Disease (Contemporary Endocrinology; 21), Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, →ISBN, page 237:

“Shoot!” came a third exclamation. From me actually. Not only had I collided scrotally with a particular hard and rigid bit of deck furniture but my bucket of precious octopi had just been flipped over and the delicious little darlings were off spinning overboard in furious spumes of spray.

2006, David Yeadon, Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 103:

(chiefly medicine) With respect to, or via, the scrotum.


prehand

prehand (comparative more prehand, superlative most prehand)

more prehand (comparative)
most prehand (superlative)

I seen golf ball warmers before. They are not approved by the USGA, so I'm told. But getting back to heating up the golf ball. Heating them prehand would do you no good. You would have to heat them up prior to teeing up.

1997 February 19, getsum, “warm balls”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

I apologise prehand to all those non-Scots out there, but BRAVEHEART......................MEDIOCRE!!!!!

1998 November 4, Adam Gill, “Mediocre films”, in aus.films (Usenet):

i called my credit card company prehand to advise them that Im going to be spending a large amount

2000 October 13, Scott Keenan, “Is This Safe?”, in alt.marketing.online.ebay (Usenet):

Like all taxes proposed by pandering chickenshit avererage IQ cowardly office-seeking assholes, it's rigged prehand to fuck the middle and upper middle class and let the rich and poor off scot free.

2008 January 15, Wankatoa, “Austin Fry's ad available online??”, in austin.general (Usenet):

A project may contain sub-projects or mere libraries were sources contained in those libraries cannot be determined prehand and it rendered the whole process ineffective.

2014 September 12, Pritpal Bedi, “Announcement: HbIDE Implements Harbour/xHarbour Debugger”, in comp.lang.xharbour (Usenet):

(nonstandard) Beforehand; at an earlier time.


do-ocratically

do-ocratically (comparative more do-ocratically, superlative most do-ocratically)

more do-ocratically (comparative)
most do-ocratically (superlative)

Citizen engagement occurs do-ocratically in an environment without economic and administrative limitations to encourage creative productions that are interactive and gifted for public enjoyment.

2013 May, Kerry D. Rohrmeier, Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn (thesis), Reno, N.V.: University of Nevada, Reno, page i:

(technology, neologism) In the manner of a do-ocracy ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").


like nobody's watching

2016, “Kiss Me Like Nobody's Watching”, in Taking One for the Team, performed by Simple Plan:


like it's nobody's business

like it's nobody's business (not comparable)

like nobody's business
like nobody's business#English

Alternative form of like nobody's business


per bend

per bend argent and gules; tierced per bend

Per bend and per pale or and arg. JOHNSON, 1730.
Per bend or and az. CRANE.
Per bend dancetty or and az. […]

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 182:

(heraldry) (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the dexter chief (viewer's top left) along a 45 degree angle towards the sinister base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend).

tranché

heraldry: partitioned diagonally (\): party per bend


per bend sinister

per bend sinister argent and azure; tierced per bend sinister

(heraldry) (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the sinister chief (viewer's top right) towards the dexter base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend sinister).

taillé

heraldry: partitioned diagonally (/): party per bend sinister


die-die

When we’ve something to say […] we will die-die find the most compelling way to say it to our intended audience.

2004 December 12, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L14:

[O]nly about 100 [hawker] stalls got his highest ranking of “die, die must try”.

2006 August 13, Teo Pau Lin, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L24:

If GCT said die die Punggol 21 must go on, can HDB say no ?

2003, kilometric, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

(Singlish) No matter what, absolutely, even if one dies trying; emphasizes urgency, necessity or commitment.


fernily

fernily (comparative more fernily, superlative most fernily)

more fernily (comparative)
most fernily (superlative)

I was pleased once again to be in a beautiful Eastern deciduous forest, not as fernily voluptuous as an Oregon rain forest, but more diverse in many ways and more likely to host salamanders.

2012, Murr Brewster, Trousering Your Weasel, page 191:


sweetliest

superlative form of sweetly: most sweetly


for the longest time

There's a habit I developed at the Monkey Inn that I had for the longest time: singing side to side, away from the audience.

2015, John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 141:


unwieldedly

unwieldedly (comparative more unwieldedly, superlative most unwieldedly)

more unwieldedly (comparative)
most unwieldedly (superlative)

One of their happiest conceits was to improvise, by the aid of an umbrella and a travelling-shawl, a huge elephant, who unwieldedly perambulated up and down the narrow aisles of the cars amid the shouts of the admiring travellers.

1874 June 25, “The Annual Excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association”, in The Boston Commonwealth, 4 July 1874, page 1, column 4:

The unwieldedly Democratic majority has resulted in "bloc" government rather than party government.

1934 June 23, “Radio Censorship”, in The Scranton Times-Tribune, number 150, page 6, column 3:

The co-op would not need to unwieldedly cover three separate projects, and 100 per cent participation could be assured.

1977 December 6, “Leaders of tenants pushing for co-op”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, page 18, column 2:

The unwieldedly-titled Sid Meier's Civilization IV Mobile, Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Mobile and Sid Meier's Pirates! are all due out in 2008; we're betting they lose Sid's name by the time they make it to space-limited operator portals, mind.

2007 May 23, Stuart Dredge, “Railroad Tycoon goes mobile”, in Pocket Gamer, archived from the original on 2023-06-25:


neorealistically

neorealistically (comparative more neorealistically, superlative most neorealistically)

more neorealistically (comparative)
most neorealistically (superlative)


overliterally

The Roman Catholic doctrine, "outside the church, no salvation," has been the subject of many a theological treatise, and has wrecked the mood in advance of many an auspicious American interfaith gathering. Catholic theologians explain that it must not be overliterally interpreted. Non-Catholic Christians, they say, if "invincibly ignorant" that Catholicism is the only way to salvation, can save themselves by leading good lives; for this makes them, whether they know it or not, Catholics "by desire."

1953 March 2, “Religion: Excommunication”, in Time, retrieved 2023-06-26:

In Job 42:10 the A.V. translates overliterally, and the Lord turned the captivity of Job. Here clearly the R.S.V. gives the real meaning, and the Lord restored the fortunes of Job. Throughout the Old Testament we are faced with […]

1954, Anglican Theological Review, volume 36, number 3, page 188:

τὰλόγια, Papias' words for what Matthew writes here, are widely viewed as referring to his gospel in Aramaic form. It is unjustified to insist on taking it overliterally, e.g. by restricting it to a sayings collection: Mark's gospel is said to consist of "what the Lord said and did" but is also said to pass along logioi. Both Irenaeus and other sources confirm this […]

2020, Eta Linnemann, “The origin of the synoptic gospels”, in Robert W. Yarbrough, transl., Is There A Synoptic Problem?: Rethinking the Literary Dependence of the First Three Gospels, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:


counter-stereotypically

Alternative form of counterstereotypically


counterstereotypically

From counterstereotypical + -ly or counter- + stereotypically.

Study 5 suggested that counterstereotypically successful exemplars prompt racism-denying inferences because they signal what is possible, even if not typical.

2014 March 5, Clayton R Critcher, Jane L Risen, “If he can do it, so can they: exposure to counterstereotypically successful exemplars prompts automatic inferences”, in J Pers Soc Psychol, →DOI:


interphrastically

interphrastically (comparative more interphrastically, superlative most interphrastically)

more interphrastically (comparative)
most interphrastically (superlative)


extragalactically

In an extragalactic manner or orientation; outside the galaxy.


toe-curlingly

toe-curlingly (comparative more toe-curlingly, superlative most toe-curlingly)

more toe-curlingly (comparative)
most toe-curlingly (superlative)

Sotheby’s catalogue toe-curlingly describes The Kaws Album as “the most accomplished work on canvas that KAWS [aka Brian Donnelly]^([sic]) ever created”.

2019 April 3, Anny Shaw, “Why KAWS is not a great artist”, in The Art Newspaper:

In a toe-curling manner; embarrassingly.


unexplicitly

unexplicitly (comparative more unexplicitly, superlative most unexplicitly)

more unexplicitly (comparative)
most unexplicitly (superlative)


ivver

(dialectal) Alternative spelling of ever


paraphilically

paraphilically (comparative more paraphilically, superlative most paraphilically)

more paraphilically (comparative)
most paraphilically (superlative)


confinedly

confinedly (comparative more confinedly, superlative most confinedly)

more confinedly (comparative)
most confinedly (superlative)


poopily

poopily (comparative more poopily, superlative most poopily)

more poopily (comparative)
most poopily (superlative)

While the smell is poopily pungent, the flavor stays in the realm of savory and smoky


abaffe

abaffe (comparative more abaffe, superlative most abaffe)

more abaffe (comparative)
most abaffe (superlative)

Once heave the lead again, and sound abaffe.


two twos

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-two twos.wav

In early use attested in Irish contexts and works by Irish authors; likely spread to the Caribbean by Irish indentured servants who migrated to the West Indies (see Irish Caribbean on WikipediaWikipedia). Then spread further by Jamaican immigrants to Canada and the United Kingdom.

Two twos the mandem gave this likkle yute a deafaz.

Two twos one yout start swearing / Then one of them South youts bottled him up on the floor, then after that... yeah the ravers just aired him

2007, “4 O'Clock” (track 20), in The Chupa Chups Mixtape, performed by Bashy:

Two-twos / Quickly and unexpectedly. / Ex. / We was messin' around in her room and two-twos her dukes showed up.

[2017 July 9, Eul Basa, “The Ultimate Guide To Toronto Slang For Everyday Situations”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2023-01-22:

Had a good girl she told me lies as well / Two twos I started telling lies as well

2018 September 21, “CRB Check” (track 3), in TEN10, performed by Chip:

I got nothing to lose / Two twos, I'm outtie

2020 March 27, “ROOF” (track 9), in Before Love Came to Kill Us, performed by Jessie Reyez:

(MLE, MTE) Suddenly, right then, presently.


dykishly

dykishly (comparative more dykishly, superlative most dykishly)

more dykishly (comparative)
most dykishly (superlative)

The first thing that Kate, who nicknamed herself "Tommy" and even more dykishly "Thomas," did with her middle-aged financial independence was to take a female lover.

1985, Judy Grahn, The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Spinsters Ink Books:

A true double-surnamed, preferentially-treated, dykishly-inclined feminist

1999 November 8, wesol...@freewwweb.com, “In The Old Days”, in alt.peeves (Usenet):

Standing beside her in a school uniform was a tall, dykishly handsome older girl, with the countenance of a prefect.

2003 January 3, Dr. Simpson, “Excerpt from "Spanking Around the World"”, in soc.sexuality.spanking (Usenet):


somehow or other

Somehow or other they managed to get that grand piano upstairs.

one way or another; by some (mysterious) means


spinily

spinily (comparative more spinily, superlative most spinily)

more spinily (comparative)
most spinily (superlative)


shlockily

shlockily (comparative more shlockily, superlative most shlockily)

more shlockily (comparative)
most shlockily (superlative)


schlockily

schlockily (comparative more schlockily, superlative most schlockily)

more schlockily (comparative)
most schlockily (superlative)


symbolicly

symbolicly (comparative more symbolicly, superlative most symbolicly)

more symbolicly (comparative)
most symbolicly (superlative)

In the functional-meaning theory, mind is functional both instrumentally and symbolicly.

1952, Educational Theory, volume 2, page 136:


machinely

The right system should make as few mistakes as humanly or machinely possible.

1968, Leo Breiman, Probability, page 197:

The robot's eyes were measuring the distance with machinely accurate stereoscopy.

2018, Robin R. Murphy, Robotics Through Science Fiction, page 53:


blockily

blockily (comparative more blockily, superlative most blockily)

more blockily (comparative)
most blockily (superlative)


all other things being equal

all other things being equal (not comparable)

all things being equal
all things being equal#English


other things being equal

other things being equal (not comparable)


all the hours God sends

all the hours God sends (not comparable)

every hour God sends
every hour God sends#English

(colloquial) Synonym of every hour God sends


soul-crushingly

soul-crushingly (comparative more soul-crushingly, superlative most soul-crushingly)

more soul-crushingly (comparative)
most soul-crushingly (superlative)


infinitly

infinitly (comparative more infinitly, superlative most infinitly)

more infinitly (comparative)
most infinitly (superlative)


cohyponymously

From co- + hyponymously or cohyponymous + -ly.

Technocratic condensations are rendered, by repetition, into culturally normative, socially consumed and fetishised mantras that are also often juxtaposed to specific others, like, for instance, the “holy trinity” that accompanies “globalization” in public policy (see above). These are sometimes co-meronymously, sometimes co-hyponymously related to globalization and are themselves condensations that draw on neo-classical assumptions.

2000 July, Bernard J. McKenna, Philip Graham, “Technocratic Discourse: A Primer”, in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, volume 30, number 3, →DOI, page 235:


circumventingly

circumventingly (comparative more circumventingly, superlative most circumventingly)

more circumventingly (comparative)
most circumventingly (superlative)

UNDERMI´NINGLY, circumventingly, […]

1735, N[athan] Bailey, “UNDERMI´NINGLY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 7th edition, London: […] J. J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, column 2:

[…] whilst the ex-State Rights men, who compose the Clay division of the Whig Party, and wish to delude the people into the belief, that they, too, opposed the “mother of abominations,” and slyly, insidiously and circumventingly employed in promoting, consummating, and perpetually fixing her blasting and monopolizing curse upon the trading and agricultural interests of the South.

1843 July 25, “The Devil turned Puritan—or the Clayites of Georgia declaring a Protective Tariff unconstitutional”, in The Macon Georgia Telegraph, volume XVII, number 43, Macon, Ga., page [2], column 6:

The Tribune, young Gideon and Saint Lewis ride circumventingly by and cautiously around to the right, while I sagaciously conclude to stick to Howell, as doth the “Y-and-dot.”

1867, Charles Godfrey Leland, “Letter Twelfth”, in The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, or, Three Thousand Miles in a Railway Car, Philadelphia, Pa.: Ringwalt & Brown, Steam-Power Book and Job Printers, […], page 57:

Here is another order for protecting the interests of the company:—“If any of the brotherhood have agreed for work, and another brother circumventingly go and offer to take the said work cheaper than the former have agreed for, whether he doth get the said work or not” he shall pay £5.

1878 July 5, “Newcastle Incorporated Companies. The Paviors.”, in Newcastle Courant. […], number 10,619, page 6, column 5:

She stood, for the merest fraction of time, on her toes, before she moved towards him circumventingly.

1923, Kathleen Coyle, Piccadilly: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, page 93:

Naturally, I have not been everywhere and do not know how universal the cult of vulgarity is, but I have noted that authors possess a paucity of felicity in circumventingly ugly language in very popular books.

1956 January 23, George E[phraim] Sokolsky, “These Days: A Treatise On Decent Language, Em Cees, A Plain-Talking Governor And Privacy”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume XLII, number 23, Tallahassee, Fla., page 6, column 3:

[…] (6) that circumventingly the report given by the Officer was that the place was not in Mynso proper, whereas the suspension order was enforced throughout the jurisdiction of the Doloi of Mynso that is, throughout the Mynso Doloiship.

1977, Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Debates, page 69:

And the ignominy that is a basic ingredient in aggression still influences would-be predators in hesitating to make an overt attack on a country they covet. They do it circumventingly, as the Soviets are doing through their Cuban mercenaries in Africa, but they don’t like to bear the accusation of fomenting war.

1978 September 10, “[Editorial opinion] Outlawing war”, in Kokomo Tribune, volume 128, number 7, Kokomo, Ind., page 4, column 3:

We were so angry (tears to no avail) that we lost self-control and thought to try to circumventingly sneak in—only to be embarrassingly whistle-blown at the first upward clutch of the somewhat bush-camouflaged fence.

2002, Raymond G. Chase, “[Greece and the Greek Islands] Ramnous”, in Ancient Hellenistic and Roman Amphitheatres, Stadiums, and Theatres: The Way They Look Now, Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall Publisher, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:


intermicronationally

intermicronationally (comparative more intermicronationally, superlative most intermicronationally)

more intermicronationally (comparative)
most intermicronationally (superlative)


deffos

A quick peep out of the window confirmed I was not in Clerkenwell. 'Dead sure about it. I can see the sea and everything. Deffos in Hawaii.'

2013, Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl, Rearsby, Leicester: W F Howes Ltd, →ISBN, page 124:

"Lay off, Jass. Can't we just forget it and have a good night?" Jass looked like she was going to protest but decided against it, and broke into a wide smile. "Deffos. Come on, more cocktails are needed!"

2014, Holly Bourne, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting, London: Usborne, →ISBN, page 214:

A fourth wrote: 'Loving 90s week on sewing bee tonight. Deffos my favourite decade. I was more grunge than Spice Girls.'

2023 July 6, Harriet Johnston, “Viewers of the Great British Sewing Bee left stunned as contestant makes a revelation about her age”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-08:


therewise

Pray give my moſt humble ſervice to Mr. Pope, and tell him, I beg the favour of him to let me know when he comes to town, what morning I ſhall wait on him at his lodging; for I walk out in a morning ſo often, that I may therewiſe loſe an opportunity of ſeeing him.

1719 September 14, Mr. [Elijah] Fenton, “Letter LXXVII”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., volume 8, London: […] B. Law […], published 1797, page 275:

[…] it appears to me highly incredible that the deceased, a poor helpless cripple, who was barely able to move about the village, having entirely lost the use of one arm and almost the entire power of speech, and was therewise enfeebled by paralysis, could, had he been pursued by the prisoner, have limped to the place, where he is said to have been killed, more especially when it is considered that the sandy bed of a broad nullah intervened his house and the said garden.

1853 September 1, Reports of Cases in the Court of Nizamut Adawlut, Vol. III. Part II., Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., published 1855, page 368:

The city is also expending $16,000 in extending the water mains and therewise improving the water works plant.

1911 February 15, Engineering & Contracting, volume XXXV, number 7, Chicago, I.L.: The Myron C. Clark Publishing Co., page 47:

The amount of heat depends on many parameters like temperature of gas, kind of gas, mean beam length, view factor and therewise size of kiln, shape of product, design of kiln.

2006 May, M[iroslaw] Chmielowski, E[ckehard] Specht, “Modelling of the heat transfer of transport rollers in kilns”, in Applied Thermal Engineering, volume 26, number 7, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 738:


cursefully

cursefully (comparative more cursefully, superlative most cursefully)

more cursefully (comparative)
most cursefully (superlative)

Was not thou most curstfully madd to sever thy selfe from such an unequalde rarity?

1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

Let our heavenly Dante tell how cursefully the miserly and prodigal clash together in business circles here; how the wrathful “boil and bubble” in the Stygian lake of their own making; […]

1889, George Leonard Cheney, Belief, page 113:

I really, dear lady, can not again receive any object of value from your hands, of value or even of no value, and I loudly won’t hear of so much as even cursefully growling Thanks at you for those before me.

1902 December 12, Henry James, “[Letter to Jessie Allen]”, in Leon Edel, editor, Letters, volume 4, published 1984, page 252:

At the dock he communicated the interview to the gang, and amid the jeers of the shore workers, they cursefully hoisted sail and headed the vessel back to Port Anthony again.

1922, Frederick William Wallace, The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing Fleets, page 46:

(dated, uncommon) Peevishly; while cursing.


micropalaeontologically

Alternative form of micropaleontologically


regulatively

In a regulative manner; in terms of regulation.


quarter-yearly

Synonym of quarterly (“every three months”)


blindfully

blindfully (comparative more blindfully, superlative most blindfully)

more blindfully (comparative)
most blindfully (superlative)

"It's extraordinary," said Mr. Mosen, 54, who lives in Wellington, New Zealand, and has demonstrated the technology on a podcast he hosts about "living blindfully."

2023 July 18, Kashmir Hill, “A ChatGPT That Recognizes Faces? OpenAI Worries World Isn’t Ready.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:


hingedly

a frame hingedly connected with the base


unprofanely

unprofanely (comparative more unprofanely, superlative most unprofanely)

more unprofanely (comparative)
most unprofanely (superlative)


Marxistly

Marxistly (comparative more Marxistly, superlative most Marxistly)

more Marxistly (comparative)
most Marxistly (superlative)

In a Marxist way; In a way resembling a Marxist; In accordance with Marxism


per chief

Party per chief, gules and or, are the Arms of Camoyse.

1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Mixed sciences, page 602:

[...] which Anne bore parted per chief azure and vert, three martlets or, in the first a crescent az. for difference, but by her he had no issue.

1882, William Wheater, The history of the parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, page 175:

Per chief gules and sable, a lion rampant ermine (argent billetty sable). GOLDWELL,

1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 173:

Cromwell of Tattershall : party per chief, gules and argent, a bend azure; which might also be blazoned as gules, a chief argent, and a bend azure (fig. 16). Heraldic writers give the fillet as a diminutive of the chief.

1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694:

Shield—Quarterly first and fourth, quarterly Gules and Argent, in the first quarter a mullet Argent (De Vere); second, Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée Argent (Howard); third, per chief Gules and Argent[…]

1920, Grosvenor Thomas, Maurice Drake, The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass: Formerly in the Possession of George William Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford of Costessey in the County of Norfolk, page 19:

Per chief gules and azure, over all a lion rampant or Hastang Robert G. 162 QI . 123 .... L. 69 J. 133 E. 153 Per chief or and azure, over all a lion rampant gules Hastang Sutton Robert John FW. 176 HE . 162 L. 228 Per chief gules[…]

1984, Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two: An Ordinary of Thirteenth-century Armorials:

rule of tincture
rule of tincture#English

(heraldry, now nonstandard) Partitioned into two parts by a horizontal line one-third of the way down the shield. A shield of this form is now normally viewed as one colour charged with a chief instead, although this may cause it to break the rule of tincture.


sexadecimally

(dated, rare) In a sexadecimal manner; in sixteen parts, or in hexadecimal.


something dreadful

The old bastard was prevaricating something dreadful.

2004 July 31, cypher, “The twat list”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):


bassily

bassily (comparative more bassily, superlative most bassily)

more bassily (comparative)
most bassily (superlative)


formwise

Coordinate term: contentwise


most like

(archaic or dialectal) In all probability, most likely.


what is worse

Worse still, even worse; and to top it off, as if that wasn't bad enough.


stiff-neckedly

stiff-neckedly (comparative more stiff-neckedly, superlative most stiff-neckedly)

more stiff-neckedly (comparative)
most stiff-neckedly (superlative)


sub modo

(law) Subject to a modification or qualification.


extramatrimonially

/ˌɛkstɹəmˌætɹɪmˈo͡ʊnɪəli/

/ˌɛkstɹəmˌatɹɪmˈə͡ʊnɪəli/


sweatingly

Ran sweatingly across campus

(modifying a verb) In such a way that one sweats.

A sweatingly hot day

(modifying an adjective) To an extent that makes one sweat.


tappy-lappy

tappy-lappy (comparative more tappy-lappy, superlative most tappy-lappy)

more tappy-lappy (comparative)
most tappy-lappy (superlative)


time in time again

time and time again
time and time again#English


microaggressively

microaggressively (comparative more microaggressively, superlative most microaggressively)

more microaggressively (comparative)
most microaggressively (superlative)


boobily

boobily (comparative more boobily, superlative most boobily)

more boobily (comparative)
most boobily (superlative)

Remo waited in front and Lynette came boobily bobbing out in precisely ten minutes.

1975, Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy, Assassins Play-Off (The Destroyer; 20), New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 112:

When Otto spoke of this, Bugs couldn't quite wrap his mind around it. He would assess that "Other than being boobily challenged, she is smokin' hot . . . you could crack an egg on her ass . . . her nipples could cut glass . . . Jesus, man. I'd be nailin' the pants off of her."

2010, Michael Harper, Together, Yet Alone, Renfrew, Ont.: General Store Publishing House, →ISBN, page 34:

(nonstandard) Involving boobs (women's breasts); in a booby manner.


sexwise

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He came up & asked what I did. Taking it sex-wise I answered "Just about anything."


sixtly

Sixtly, In the same Declaration, June 14. pag. 6. it is declared that the Army took up Armes, in judgement and conscience, for the peoples just rights and liberties, and not as mercenary Souldiers [...]

1647, John Wildman, The Case of the Armie Truly Stated:


right out

1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
One minute he's so glad to be with me, kissy-kissy, & the next minute he tells me right out he doesn't care if he's with me or not.


hoodwise

In the manner of a hood (part of a garment).


heartwise

Did I understand from your response to the chairman there, Doctor, that we already get some kind of reading that if there is an abnormality in either of the parents of that child, heartwise, the chances are that it could show up in that child?

1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations for 1977: Hearings... (page 715)


q.i.d.

Dilatation of this type “irons out the folds” of the urethra, giving better drainage of the paraurethral glands, stimulating circulation and promoting rapid healing, especially when small doses (7½ gr. q.i.d.) of one of the triple-sulfonamides are given as an adjunct.

1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34:

Alternative form of QID (“four times a day”).


battlewise

Battlewise the conflict was to be gauged in terms of skirmishes and local fighting, but actually the hurtful war was that between citizen and soldier against the ruthless guerrillas who preyed on the land.

2000, Henry P. Scalf, Kentucky's Last Frontier, page 7:


oftens

(UK, regional, archaic) Synonym of often


any which way

In any direction, or according to any method.


as always

As always, Joe was late for school.


flat stick

flat stick (comparative more flat stick, superlative most flat stick)

more flat stick (comparative)
most flat stick (superlative)

Wade placed him in a large plastic rubbish bin full of sea water and off we went flat stick back to the El Torito near the Sand Garden. Howard tagged Sammy and let him go in this alien world, Walt filming the reactions of the other males to this stranger.

1975, Wade Doak, Sharks and Other Ancestors: Patterns of Survival in the South Seas, Auckland […]: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 303:

He then drives us flat stick into the setting sun to home.

2012, Gail Brenssell-Rakuraku, Go Kick Arse Ma!, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 69:

(Australia, New Zealand) As quickly as possible; at top speed.


kway

kway (comparative kwayer, superlative kwayest)

kwayer (comparative)
kwayest (superlative)


exophorically

The picture is unclear, for some verbs seem to permit all of the logical possibilities exemplified in (9)–(15) while others allow only some. I will have more to say about the conditions under which a deictic element in a sentential complement may be interpreted endophorically or exophorically in the discussion of mood and presupposition below.

1974, Richard D. Brecht, “Deixis in embedded structures”, in Foundations of Language, volume 11, number 4, pages 489-518:

Personal reference is a co-hyponym of textual cohesion; it deals with the first, second and third persons singular or plural; it can occur exophorically, or endophorically as anaphora or cataphora. The present paper is a descriptive study on the cohesiveness and translatability of personal reference; it describes its occurrence and cohesiveness in translating from French into English.

2019, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, “The cohesiveness of personal reference in translation: a case study of French and English”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, volume 8, number 4, →DOI, pages 130-136:

Therefore, we have replaced adnominal and adverbial demonstratives with a single category: “demonstrative modifier,” which can be applied either exophorically or endophorically, i.e., to refer to referents in the immediate environment, or to refer to linguistic aspects of the unfolding discourse.

2020, Terra Edwards, Diane Brentari, “The grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in an emerging tactile language”, in Front Psychol, volume 11, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 579992:

In an exophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues outside (external to) an utterance.


endophorically

In an endophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues within an utterance or text.


mayB

From maybe, the second syllable is pronounced like the name of the letter b. B is written in upper case to indicate that it must be pronounced separately.

MayB I could kidnap him, bring him 2 my apartment, & have a cover charge 4 any1 wanting 2 C him

1997 April 13, Kanoo, alt.fan.brad-pitt (Usenet):

MayB ......i could B the 1 =o)

1998 September 28, DNAconflict, alt.teens.penpals (Usenet):

(Internet slang, text messaging, informal, uncommon) Short for maybe.


mayb

From maybe, the second syllable is pronounced like the name of the letter b.

[…] but for some stupid reason, I thought mayb i could get Windows to access it faster if I checked the SCSI option in the properties from device manager.

2000 June 4, josephbradley71, “Help for CD-ROM”, in alt.os.windows95.crash.crash.crash (Usenet):

Sumbody should bring my sumden 2 eat.!!!!! mayb burger.king.!!

2012 June 22, -NENE♡♥, “Tweet”, in Twitter:

Mayb I will call him spaghetti Derek

2023 April 5, Sausage Neil, “Tweet”, in Twitter:

(Internet slang, text messaging, informal, rare) Clipping of maybe.


untearfully

untearfully (comparative more untearfully, superlative most untearfully)

more untearfully (comparative)
most untearfully (superlative)

Perhaps we have no right to complain of the obliteration of these memorials of antiquity by the plough; the living are more than the dead, and in this case it may be said that we are only following the Artemisian example in consuming (in our daily bread) minute portions of the ashes of our old relations, albeit untearfully, with a cheerful countenance.

1910 November, W[illiam] H[enry] Hudson, A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs, second edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., pages 16–17:

These advertisements linger somewhere between pride and indignation—"I've only had three hours of sleep!" we cry, untearfully, as we stir coffees and the hearts of friends for comfort.

2012 August 28, Cherone Duggan, “Dropping Nothing: Expanding Time”, in Harvard Magazine, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Magazine Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:


surfacely

Each of these positions can be felt deeply or surfacely.

2002, A. K. Mehta, Acupuncture for Everyone, page 33:

Surfacely, the Forms-as-thoughts possibility is turning out, it would appear, a “solution” to this first infinite regress difficulty only by throwing the argument into an even more insidious and absurd infinite regress.

2011, John W. McGinley, The Seventh Chamber, page 125:

(nonstandard or non-native speakers' English) On the surface; superficially.


rattishly

rattishly (comparative more rattishly, superlative most rattishly)

more rattishly (comparative)
most rattishly (superlative)


recognizingly

recognizingly (comparative more recognizingly, superlative most recognizingly)

more recognizingly (comparative)
most recognizingly (superlative)

[…] and it is himself who looks out recognizingly at himself, just as the so interestingly painted image looks out recognizingly at him.

1950, Lionel Charles Knights, Frank Raymond Leavis, Scrutiny, volume 17, page 27:

So as to recognize; showing recognition.


semeiotically

semeiotically (comparative more semeiotically, superlative most semeiotically)

more semeiotically (comparative)
most semeiotically (superlative)


doveishly

doveishly (comparative more doveishly, superlative most doveishly)

more doveishly (comparative)
most doveishly (superlative)


cross-jurisdictionally

In a manner involving multiple jurisdictions.


in so much

In ſo much that yͧ ſhouldeſt ſee thẽ make thẽſelues poꝛe, to helpe other as they now make other pooꝛe to make thẽſelues rich.

1573, “An exposition vppon the v. vi. vii. chapters of Mathew, […]”, in The Whole Workes of W[illiam] Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct[or [[w:Robert Barnes (martyr)|Robert] Barnes]], […], London: […] Iohn Daye, […], fifth chapter, page 198, column 1:

Then they vrged me to drink a very vnpleaſant potion, which troubled me greatly; in ſo much as I deſired them to vntye me, and give me leaue to lye downe vppon my bed: but they regarded not any words, […]

1605, S[amuel] H[arsnett], A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, to With-draw the Harts of His Maiesties Subiects from Their Allegeance, and from the Truth of Christian religion Professed in England, vnder the Pretence of Casting out of Deuils. […], London: […] Ia. Roberts, […], page 266:

But as it ordinarily happens, that when a man hath ſome ſecret deſign, he meets with an hundred rubs he never foreſaw, Melicrates was courted that day to ſpend the evening in divers places; two of his friends came to deſire his company at ſupper; in ſo much that he had much ado to be rid of all thoſe that came to ſee him.

1678, [Georges] de Scudéry, translated by J. Davies, Clelia, an Excellent New Romance: […], London: […] H. Herringman, D. Newman […], part III, book III, page 376, column 2:

Around 2:00 a.m., I was in so much pain that I was crying, and my husband was getting angry at the hospital for not doing anything for me.

2009, LaNita McMeekan-Cates, The Day My Baby Was Born: The Joys, Wonders, and Surprises of the Day You’ll Never Forget, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 249:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, so, much.


nudily

en-adverb

nudily (comparative more nudily, superlative most nudily)

more nudily (comparative)
most nudily (superlative)

The next day he seeks her out again at a nudist camp. Finally Bradshaw pays off the manager to let Virginia go, and after a kidnap attempt by the manager's thug fails, she and Bradshaw return to the camp and "lived nudily ever after."

1998, Steve Sullivan, Bombshells: Glamour Girls of a Lifetime, page 12:


hap-hazard

en-adv

hap-hazard (comparative more hap-hazard, superlative most hap-hazard)

more hap-hazard (comparative)
most hap-hazard (superlative)

Besides, it is one thing to predict or operate hap-hazard, and quite another to have definite, positive convictions, leading naturally to the anticipated result.

1868, John S[tephen] Wright, “My former Opinions And Predictions were based upon a reasonable Hypothesis”, in Chicago: Past, Present, Future, Chicago: Horton & Leonard, page 3:

Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane.

1940, William Plotts, Isogeotherm, Or Monist Theory of Stratified Mineral Occurrence and Origin, page 7:


for one reason or another

for one reason or another (not comparable)

In 1951, when many people, both patients and doctors, thought that the newly discovered cortisone of Philip Hench was the therapeutic answer to this disease but were for one reason or another unable to obtain it, a paper from Sweden stated that similar results could be obtained by injections of deoxycortone (Doca) and ascorbic acid.

1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:


howandever

Such was his terror, howandever, of the Captain, that he was afeard either to go for the money himself, or to send for it by another.

1860 November, William Carleton, “The Rapparee. A Historical Sketch. Chapter V.”, in Duffy's Hibernian Magazine, volume 1, number 5, Dublin, London: James Duffy, →OCLC, page 197:

So howandever, as I was saying, the old dog seeing the tin was empty starts mousing around by Joe and me. I'd train him by kindness, so I would, if he was my dog. Give him a rousing fine kick now and again where it wouldn't blind him.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 298:

Howandever, at the selfsame time, there was a gang of fellas from the valley of kings follying the very same pointy star. And didn't that pointy star point them king-fellas in the direction of Mary's cowstable.

2012, Honor Molloy, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, Boston, M.A.: Gemma, →ISBN, page 43:

(Ireland, dialectal, conjunctive) However, nevertheless, anyway.


phallocentrically

phallocentrically (comparative more phallocentrically, superlative most phallocentrically)

more phallocentrically (comparative)
most phallocentrically (superlative)


e. gr.

The Figure of the Pupil in various Animals, is wonderfully adapted to their various Circumſtances and Occaſions. In ſome, e. gr. in Man, ’tis round; […]

1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “PUPILLA”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 912, column 1:

According to the police regulation, Moſco is partitioned into twenty chief diviſions, denominated from the principal ſtreets they ſeverally comprehend, e. gr. the Boſmanſkoi, the Verſkoi, &c.

1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second, volume II, London: […] A. Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 367–368:

Hence said of a ligament by which the use of some member of the body is impeded, e. gr. the tongue, Mk. vii. 35; […]

1840, S[amuel] T[homas] Bloomfield, A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament: […], London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], page 77, column 2:


on mass

The atmosphere was degenerating and then the girls decided it was time to leave on mass.

2016, Shane Blackman, “The emotional imagination: exploring critical ventriloquy […]”, in Shane Blackman, Michelle Kempson, editors, The Subcultural Imagination […], →ISBN, page 75:

[“]They are either for mating purposes or they may be moving on mass looking for areas in the garden with a higher moisture content,” he said.

2018 September 28, Tom Flanagan, “Family baffled after mysterious 'alien mass' appears on their driveway”, in Yahoo! News:

Heavy rains and winds threaten to batter Koh Phangan, Koh Tao and Koh Samui which have seen holidaymakers leave on mass, officials said.

2019 January 4, Mark Hodge, James Cox, “Trouble in paradise: Tropical storm Pabuk sparks mass panic on Thai island resorts as 50,000 tourists flee 22-foot waves and heavy rain”, in The Sun:


slow-wittedly

slow-wittedly (comparative more slow-wittedly, superlative most slow-wittedly)

more slow-wittedly (comparative)
most slow-wittedly (superlative)


circumnavigationally

(rare) By means of, or in terms of, circumnavigation.


unmeasuredly

unmeasuredly (comparative more unmeasuredly, superlative most unmeasuredly)

more unmeasuredly (comparative)
most unmeasuredly (superlative)


tgt

Imagine posting a cute TikTok of your s/o and then girls come forward and tell u he's been cheating on you the entire 2 years y'all were tgt Omfg

2022 August 19, @NatalieAng_99, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

Apparently Kamel is Noze's ex. There are videos of them dancing tgt on YouTube. He has also danced with La Chica for Chungha's song Play, but I'm not sure if they are friends or acquaintances.

2022 September 6, u/ripe_ruin, “History and Relationships of the Crews”, in Reddit, r/StreetWomanFighter, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

why do they look good tgt idk

2022 October 20, @jenlisastruggle, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

He asked if I want to be friends again but he made it clear that he has no intention of getting back tgt. We were tgt for 3.5 years before We broke up bc of religion and there's no way for us to be together.

2023 January 22, u/Decent_Aardvark6895, “We broke up, went NC and now we're friends.”, in Reddit, r/ExNoContact, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of together.


strictliest

superlative form of strictly: most strictly


paralyzedly

paralyzedly (comparative more paralyzedly, superlative most paralyzedly)

more paralyzedly (comparative)
most paralyzedly (superlative)


strictlier

comparative form of strictly: more strictly


bourgeoisly

bourgeoisly (comparative more bourgeoisly, superlative most bourgeoisly)

more bourgeoisly (comparative)
most bourgeoisly (superlative)