peacelessly

peacelessly (comparative more peacelessly, superlative most peacelessly)

more peacelessly (comparative)
most peacelessly (superlative)

Slowly but ceaselessly / Holy or peacelessly / Go we on ever, / Fate weaving shrouds for us / Waiting with clouds for us, / On Death’s dark river.

1845 September 20, Augustus Snodgrass [pseudonym], “From the New York Tribune. The Organ.”, in Boon’s Lick Times, volume 6, number 28, Fayette, Mo., page [4], column 1:

The Rev. Jacob Bradley denies that he ever threatened to mob the Rev. T. J. Shores because of his Liberalism. He says he regards it the “spacious duty of the gospel to live peacelessly as they can among other minstrels—that it is entirely indifferous to him whether Shores votes for the Literals or the publicans—every man in the country has the inhesive right to promulgicate any sediments that suits his intellectuosity. Who can say that Jacob’s head is not level?—[Cairo Gazette.

1872 October 24, J. M. Macon, R. D. Shropshire, editors, Eufaula Weekly Times, volume IV, number 26, Eufaula, Ala., front page, column 2:

Brooklet, gushing ceaselessly; / Mill-wheels, rushing peacelessly; / All ye merry wood-birds, ye / Gay and free, / Stop your joyful melody!

1877 February 8, Wilhelm Mueller, “Mine”, in D. B. Ainger, editor, The Bryan Press, volume XXII, number 33, Bryan, Oh., front page, column 4:

“[…] All other agony / I’ll bear unmurmuring, but save me this!” / So pleaded Judas in the forest depths; / But, since that moment, now long decades gone, / The soul of Judas wanders peacelessly / Throughout the baseless realms of boundless space.

1894, Louis H. Victory, “The Soul of Judas. A Dream of Punishment.”, in W[illiam] J. Paul, compiler, Modern Irish Poets, Belfast: […] The Belfast Steam-Printing Co., […], page 13:

He could not stand passively by in wooden indifference to Shiona, nor to her people, nor could he ignore his conscience which tugged peacelessly at him.

1994, John Lister-Kaye, chapter 23, in One for Sorrow, Nairn: Balnain Books, →ISBN, page 202:

He is unusual in that his intolerance and his pureness of vision haven’t made him into boot-boy, a Tory or a fascist. He is the opposite of these things; is ceaselessly, peacelessly contrary.

1994, Nicola Barker, chapter 5, in Reversed Forecast, London: Fourth Estate, published 2011, →ISBN, page 23:


bleed for someone

en-adverb

bleed for someone (comparative more bleed for someone, superlative most bleed for someone)

more bleed for someone (comparative)
most bleed for someone (superlative)

(idiomatic, informal, sarcastic) To feel emotional pain that someone is suffering.


anarchially

en-adv

anarchially (comparative more anarchially, superlative most anarchially)

more anarchially (comparative)
most anarchially (superlative)

No stable union can be made between States legitimately governed and States which are anarchially controlled.

1880 August 16, “Southern Census Frauds”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union:

Tere is in architectural circles and amongst partly-informed but interested lay thought a tendency to restlessness, impatience and revolt against the wise restraint which respect for tradition imposes upon the anarchially disposed in design at the present time.

1925 October 2, J. Hembrow, “Evolution and Revolution in Design”, in The Builder, volume XXIX, number 4313, page 490:

If the normal urethral avenue is blocked due to ecchymosis, the millions of spermatazoa anarchially reverse course, enter the bloodstream, and race through muscles and organs in a marathon cross-country (cross-body) trial.

1989, Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, The Dogs of Paradise, Macmillan Publishers, page 135:


leave someone no choice

en-adverb

leave someone no choice (comparative more leave someone no choice, superlative most leave someone no choice)

more leave someone no choice (comparative)
most leave someone no choice (superlative)

(idiomatic, informal, sarcastic) To make it necessary for somebody to do something.


two times

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I see it in someone's eyes

I see it in someone's eyes (comparative more I see it in someone's eyes, superlative most I see it in someone's eyes)

more I see it in someone's eyes (comparative)
most I see it in someone's eyes (superlative)

(idiomatic, informal, sarcastic) In someone's estimation or opinion.


larkishly

en-adv

larkishly (comparative more larkishly, superlative most larkishly)

more larkishly (comparative)
most larkishly (superlative)


anchorably

anchorably (comparative more anchorably, superlative most anchorably)

more anchorably (comparative)
most anchorably (superlative)


lwk

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of low-key.


like fits

like fits (comparative more like fits, superlative most like fits)

more like fits (comparative)
most like fits (superlative)

That night we arrived at a little place called Georgenthal where we got a jolly supper and slept in two most romantically large, rickety, cold and ghostly chambers, with the wind outside blowing like fits and creaking the dismal old sign in the most pleasing manner.

(Can we date this quote?), Henry Adams, Letters Of Henry Adams 1858 1891:

It was blowing like fits; if anything had carried away I should have been on shore in a jiffy..

1903, Erskine Childers, chapter VIII, in The Riddle of the Sands, Nelson Library edition, London: T Nelson & Sons, page 98:

[…] the weather has changed instead of freezing now it is blowing gales and raining like fits.

1907, “Robertsbridge - a Mediaeval Village”, in Diary of Ethel Mercy Burchett – a Robertsbridge Girl, retrieved 2024-07-26:

(obsolete, weather) in squalls, strongly, in paroxysms


twise

Lucullus was the elder man, but Pompey of greater dignity, bicauſe he had bene Generall of the Romane people in many warres, & had already triumphed twiſe.

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Lucius Lucullus”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 571:

Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79:

The Rationale of iudgement alſo thou shalt mke with embrodered worke of diuers colours, according to the workmanship of the Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and ſcarlet twiſe died, and twiſted ſilke.

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 28:15, page 234:


nonplussingly

nonplussingly (comparative more nonplussingly, superlative most nonplussingly)

more nonplussingly (comparative)
most nonplussingly (superlative)

(very rare) In a nonplussing manner; confusingly.


in a couple of shakes

Synonym of in two shakes (“very quickly; without delay”)


nearlings

en-adverb

nearlings (comparative more nearlings, superlative most nearlings)

more nearlings (comparative)
most nearlings (superlative)

(dialectal) Alternative form of nearling (“nearly”)


nearling

nearling (comparative more nearling, superlative most nearling)

more nearling (comparative)
most nearling (superlative)

To be among the mists, the tracks of rain,
Nearling the hueless silence of the snow.

1865, George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 11; 15, page 357:

Kenda could no longer contain himself. He stepped forward, nearling.

2023, Lynn Leonard, PIX: The Flight of the Phoenixes:


Turkwise

en-adv

Turkwise (comparative more Turkwise, superlative most Turkwise)

more Turkwise (comparative)
most Turkwise (superlative)

"What if I give him the bastinado, Turkwise? Methinks that would bring him into a sounder temper."

1835, Robert Montgomery Bird, Cortes; or, The fall of Mexico, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 120:


anorogenically

In an anorogenic way: in a way unrelated to the formation of mountains.


indisposedly

indisposedly (comparative more indisposedly, superlative most indisposedly)

more indisposedly (comparative)
most indisposedly (superlative)

Above all things, beware you go not to Confeſsion pro forma, out of cuſtom, or for company; for ſuch perſons ſeem ſcarcely to deteſt ſin ſufficiently, nor purpoſe amendment reſolutely, and conſequently put themſelves in danger of committing a ſacriledg by coming to the Sacrament indiſpoſedly.

1657, “Of Penance, and Confeſſion”, in The dayly exercise, of the devout Rosarists […], Amsterdam: A[rthur Anselm] C[rowther] and T[homas] V[incent], page 270:

(rare) In an indisposed state or manner.


lickedy

en-adverb

lickedy (comparative more lickedy, superlative most lickedy)

more lickedy (comparative)
most lickedy (superlative)


prudely

en-adv

prudely (comparative more prudely, superlative most prudely)

more prudely (comparative)
most prudely (superlative)

Had late observed my silent tear,
That I was press'd, and press'd most rudely,
Not to behave so very prudely ;

1836, Alexander John Ellis, “My Recantation”, in Verses, Cambridge: Metcalfe and Palmer, page 107:

When you family-prayed on Sunday nights—
The living room a crowd of things to do
Each prudely solemn word defined your rights.

1960, Thomas McAfee, “The Matriarch”, in Poems and Stories, University of Missouri Press, page 3:

Resembling or characteristic of a prude; prudishly.


on first-name basis

on a first-name basis
on a first-name basis#English


glottally

glottally (comparative more glottally, superlative most glottally)

more glottally (comparative)
most glottally (superlative)


bedwettingly

bedwettingly (comparative more bedwettingly, superlative most bedwettingly)

more bedwettingly (comparative)
most bedwettingly (superlative)

A rumbling bassline and Jerry Cantrell’s blunderbuss of a voice are chained to Big Guitar Sounds to curiously strong effect. It’s bedwettingly exciting and faintly silly at the same time; therefore it must be truly brilliant.

1993, “Crazy dog”, in Woroni, volume 45, number 3, Acton, Canberra: Australian National University, page 28, column 4:

Here Tony is unconvincingly cast as a comprehensive school teacher who through some tortuous contrivance ends up as an unwitting, and apparently unwilling, gigolo. Source of much amusement to the studio audience, but not so bedwettingly funny for the rest of us.

1993 April 9, Chris Rundle, “Too much of Tony . . .”, in Western Daily Press, Temple Way, Bristol, page 7:

What followed was a brilliant, surreal, bedwettingly funny routine by comedian Simon Munnery in the guise of a geeky wannabe dictator, master of 99 languages, inventor of 98 languages, with his own far out logic.

1999 January 15, Andrew Losowski, “Weird as well as wonderful”, in Coventry Evening Telegraph, Coventry, page 36, column 4:


bad-temperedly

bad-temperedly (comparative more bad-temperedly, superlative most bad-temperedly)

more bad-temperedly (comparative)
most bad-temperedly (superlative)

“What does the Queen have for supper, Mrs. Jarmey?” / “How sh’d I know!” was the only reply, given rather bad-temperedly.

1891 August, George Gissing, “Letty Coe”, in Temple Bar, volume XCII, London, page 541:

Near a clump of bushes a freshet charged bad-temperedly across the road and off into a deep gulley; […]

1947, Kenneth Patchen, See You in the Morning: A Novel of Love and Faith, New York, N.Y.: Padell, page 53:

I stuck out my foot to stop the doors from closing but the man pushed me away, bad-temperedly.

1997, Maeve Friel, “Darkness on Dún Laoghaire Pier”, in Charlie’s Story, 2nd edition, Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree, →ISBN, page 73:


good-temperedly

good-temperedly (comparative more good-temperedly, superlative most good-temperedly)

more good-temperedly (comparative)
most good-temperedly (superlative)

You remember his gay old sister requested him to put off starving himself to death until she had returned from the festival of Ceres; alleging, that it would spoil her holiday if he refused to comply, as it was not permitted to appear in the procession immediately after the death of a relation; and how good-temperedly the sage acceded to her request.

a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “[Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments] The Coliseum. A Fragment.”, in [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:

If Diogenes coming to life again could have rolled himself, tub and all, into Mr. Pecksniff’s parlour, and could have seen Tom Pinch as he sat on Mercy Pecksniff’s stool, with his plate and glass before him, he could not have faced it out, though in his surliest mood, but must have smiled good-temperedly.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Comprises, among Other Important Matters, Pecksniffian and Architectural, an Exact Relation of the Progress Made by Mr. Pinch in the Confidence and Friendship of the New Pupil”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 70:

[H]e wore the elaborate cap dauntlessly at the school match, and only laughed good-temperedly when his fellows chaffed.

[1900], Ethel Turner, “Ten at Table”, in Three Little Maids, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Toronto, Ont.: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, part II (Scribbling Days), page 200:


bed-wettingly

bed-wettingly (comparative more bed-wettingly, superlative most bed-wettingly)

more bed-wettingly (comparative)
most bed-wettingly (superlative)

Overall Dick Tracy is a fairly good game, and although it’s not exactly bed-wettingly exciting, it’s worth checking out.

1991, “Dick Tracy”, in Electric Brain, number 19, Nottingham, page 12, column 2:

Entering the world of John Shuttleworth is giving yourself an insight into the life of a middle-aged ‘versatile singer song writer’, who lives with his wife Mary in a suburb of Sheffield. Why on earth this in itself should be so bed-wettingly funny, I have no idea.

1999 February 12, Richard Sutcliffe, “Northern sole agent and the pigeon lover”, in Sutton Coldfield Observer, number 715, Sutton Coldfield, page 24:

Verdict: Scary to listen to, with chilling sound effects, nicely judged performances and a largely unseen monster. Pity about the ubiquitous foam machine, but the surviving clip shows Oak and Quill as bed-wettingly terrifying (despite the terrible incidental music).

2000, Mark Campbell, “42) Fury From The Deep (6 episodes)”, in Doctor Who: A Completely and Utterly Unauthorised Guide (Pocket Essentials TV), fortieth anniversary new edition, Harpenden, Herts: Pocket Essentials, →ISBN, page 28:

This was not to say that the demons who were already in place were not terrifying. Seen in the right light, and at an unexpected moment, they might have proved bed-wettingly frightening.

2009, John Connolly, “In Which We Learn That One Should Be Careful About Accepting Anything That Is Offered For Nothing”, in The Gates: A Strange Novel for Strange Young People, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 179:

Extraordinarily vicious, deeply cynical and thoroughly depraved, but it’s also bed-wettingly funny …

2015, John Niven, quoting Scotsman, Kill Your Friends, London: Windmill Books, →ISBN:

Then, over meals the boys all pitched in to make, they would open a local ale and trade anecdotes about their mother, […] and all the stories she used to tell about life on the island—bogles and witches and selkies and pixies—which she thought were comforting and charming and they found bed-wettingly terrifying, […]

2016, Jenny Colgan, chapter 16, in The Café by the Sea: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 96:


(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of for real.


medalwise

And medalwise, the Olympics shouldn't just be about gold, silver and bronze. Let's hope the confiscation of unauthorised marketing material guarantees the combatant at least a Military Cross.

2012 July 5, Marina Hyde, “London 2012: even Beijing didn't put an army on the gates”, in The Guardian:


compressionally

compressionally (comparative more compressionally, superlative most compressionally)

more compressionally (comparative)
most compressionally (superlative)


like there were no tomorrow

Already giving out under the heat or the sheer oppression of numbers, they guzzle mineral water like there were no tomorrow.

1998, David M Thomas, chapter 6, in Anger’s Violin, Dingle, County Kerry: Mount Eagle Publications Ltd., →ISBN, page 114:

All they could think was to run, and run they did like there were no tomorrow.

2015, Jose Thekkumthala, “The Arrest”, in Amballore House, →ISBN, pages 270–271:

I had been anticipating this food for so long that all mind was set on was eating like there were no tomorrow.

2015, Shanny [pseudonym; Lashandria Smith], “The Day of the shower”, in Friends & Lovers, part 2, Leo Sullivan Presents, →ISBN, page 193:

as if there were no tomorrow
as if there were no tomorrow#English

Alternative form of as if there were no tomorrow.


pants-wettingly

pants-wettingly (comparative more pants-wettingly, superlative most pants-wettingly)

more pants-wettingly (comparative)
most pants-wettingly (superlative)

From the Bullseye Round and the Regular Round right through to the pants-wettingly exciting thrills of the Fast Money Round, the roller coaster of human passion and emotional giddiness that is Family Feud is here.

1995 June, Stretch Armstrong, “Family Feud”, in Hyper, →ISSN, page 65, column 1:

“Okay Google, tell app OFCUT active ward maximum strength now,” she speaks and scoots backwards as fast as she can on hands and knees, but Overholt is paying her no attention and she can’t tell whether it’s because her invisibility shield has held or because the unseen thing she’s reversing towards is so pants-wettingly terrifying—

2017, Charles Stross, The Delirium Brief, New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, →ISBN, page 365:

I’d been craving a challenge, and here it was. It was pants-wettingly terrifying, yes. But although I felt sick with nerves, I wanted to do it.

2017, Dave Lowe, “The Dadventure Begins”, in The Incredible Dadventure, London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 20:

The lights mounted on the outside of the submarine allowed me to see everything in our general area, but everything beyond was covered in darkness. Terrible, horrible, knee-knockingly, teeth-chatteringly, pants-wettingly scary darkness.

2017, Eric Bower, “I Quickly Curled Up and Pretended to Be a Shell”, in The Splendid Baron Submarine (The Bizarre Baron Inventions), New York, N.Y.: Amberjack Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:


Her stomach being extremely delicate, he scarcely ordered any medicines for her all this time, except a cordial julep, with spir. volat. oleos. tinct. of rhubarb as a laxative, and a julep of aqu. rosar. acet. [illegible] alb. and syr. bals. of which last she took 2 table spoonfuls 2ce or 3ce a day in ¼ of a pint of lintseed tea.

1809, abridgement of, 1758, Rob. Whytt, "On the Remarkable Effects of Blisters in Lessening the Quickness of the Pulse in Coughs, attended with Infarction of the Lungs and Fever" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume fifty, page 569), in, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, and Richard Pearson, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Abridged, volume eleven, page 222 http://books.google.com/books?id=DD5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA222&dq=3ce

Whenever a user tries to login […] , a second login box comes up and they have to log in twice, apparently once for Novell, and once for the NT domain.

1998 January 21, "LT" <elstazeelandnet.nl>, "Novell 32bit client for NT - have to log in 2ce???", message-ID <34C5C8D6.7927D6B@zeelandnet.nl>, comp.os.netware.connectivity, Usenet

What you need is a "synthetic" corks which are about 2ce or 3ce the price of cork "corks" and any good home brew shop will be able to supply.

2003 August 23, "Pinky" [Trevor A Panther] <tapan@SPAMLESSblueyonder.co.uk>, "Re: Plastic corks - UK", message-ID <Ziy1b.2042$O62.16624775@news-text.cableinet.net>, rec.crafts.winemaking, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.winemaking/msg/9c4aa0393305da76


bioscientifically

bioscientifically (comparative more bioscientifically, superlative most bioscientifically)

more bioscientifically (comparative)
most bioscientifically (superlative)


to hell and back

I love you to hell and back.


nothing if not

/ˈnʌθɪŋ ɪf nɒt/


chiastically

chiastically (comparative more chiastically, superlative most chiastically)

more chiastically (comparative)
most chiastically (superlative)

(by extension) Pertaining to the position of two things relative to one another.


off-wiki

We should discuss this off-wiki.


bibliopegically

There is the world of the bibliopegically curious which, full of charming conceits, can be expensive to journey in.

1982, Grant Uden, “'The Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding”, in Understanding Book-Collecting, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, →ISBN, page 47:

(rare) With regard to or in terms of bibliopegy (bookbinding), or the binding of a particular book.


suka-suka

PIE root
 *h₁su-
Reduplication of Malay suka (“to like”).

Once you stand for elections, you must then be ready to serve if you are called upon as an NCMP. You cannot just have a myopic view of being "a duckweed in a pond that cannot sink roots" and not give the NCMP position any dignity and "suka-suka" swap candidates.

2016 January 29, Zaqy Mohamad, “Debate on President's Address”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 94:

“It’s government-owned land, you know. […] If everyone is like him, suka suka go and claim land for themselves, can you imagine what will happen?”

2023, Agnes Chew, Eternal Summer of My Homeland, Epigram Books, →ISBN, page 29:

(Singlish) As one pleases, whenever, on a whim; freely and without regard for future consequences.


cost-effectively

BR needed to replace these trains, cost-effectively.

2024 August 21, Pip Dunn, “When Sprinters left the starting blocks”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 46:


to start off with

Barty, though, insisted the hype was easy to block out. “I don’t read the papers to start off with,” the Queenslander said. “I can come out here and play with freedom. Play my game.

2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian:


keep one's voice down

en-adverb

keep one's voice down (comparative more keep one's voice down, superlative most keep one's voice down)

more keep one's voice down (comparative)
most keep one's voice down (superlative)

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(idiomatic, informal) To hush or speak; softly or quietly.


spill someone's blood

spill someone's blood (comparative more spill someone's blood, superlative most spill someone's blood)

more spill someone's blood (comparative)
most spill someone's blood (superlative)

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(informal, idiomatic) To slash or wound violently.


culturedly

en-adv

culturedly (comparative more culturedly, superlative most culturedly)

more culturedly (comparative)
most culturedly (superlative)

A more straightforward, realistic story on this subject could not well be written, nor a pen found more subtly true, more keenly virile and culturedly versatile than that of Helen Bowen.

1896 December 19, “New Publications. A Timely Book! A Daughter of Cuba. A Story of the Cuban War of Independence. By Helen M. Bowen. […]”, in The New York Times, volume XLVI, number 14,145, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, part 2, page 9, column 3:

No, the doctor in our day is, in ninety cases out of a hundred, a refined, cultured English gentleman, earnest in his work and unblamable in his life. From his earliest student days, with few exceptions, the embryo doctor now takes life more culturedly and more earnestly.

1907, J[oseph] Stenson Hooker, “Refining Influences in Life Generally”, in The Higher Medicine, London: Evan Yellon, The Celtic Press […], page 25:

She was mid-fifties, a well built woman, motherly in appearance but keen-eyed, culturedly businesslike in manner.

2006, Geoff Mallinson, chapter 24, in The Random Shafts of Time, Penzance, Cornwall: United Writers Publications Ltd, →ISBN, page 257:


to be going on with

It's not much but it'll do to be going on with.

(UK) For now; provisionally; to begin with.


skilledly

skilledly (comparative more skilledly, superlative most skilledly)

more skilledly (comparative)
most skilledly (superlative)

The invention of diverſe Arts by his [Cain’s] Poſteritie, who were both ingenious and induſtrious, as the making of Tents, keeping of Cattel and ordering of them as it ſeemeth more skilledly then Abell had done before.

1650, William Nisbet, “[A Generall Reckoning of the Age of the World from the Creation of the World to the Death of Christ.] The First Period.”, in A Golden Chaine of Time Leading unto Christ. Or, A Compend of Sacred History, […], Edinburgh: […] Heires of George Anderson, for the Company of Stationers, pages 17–18:

The great battle of the links that is on this week at Pebble Beach is declared to be most skilledly managed and handled, and the largest crowds that ever witnessed golf matches anywhere are in constant attendance.

1929 September 3, “Gold Tournament at Pebble Beach”, in G[eorge] M[ilton] Francis, G[eorge] H[orton] Francis, editors, The Napa Daily Register, volume 114, number 88, Napa, Calif.: Francis & Francis, page 4, column 2:

They skilledly sail the boat as fast as the howling wind (Yuan and Wu 1985, pp. 57, 58).

2019, Chunming Wu, quoting Yuejueshu, “A Synthetic Analysis of the Neolithic Origins of Eastern and Southeastern Asia’s Maritime Silk Road”, in Chunming Wu, Barry Vladimir Rolett, editors, Prehistoric Maritime Cultures and Seafaring in East Asia (The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation; 1), Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., →ISBN, →ISSN, part I ([…]), section 4 ([…]), page 19:


at haphazard

Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequentially and tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion.

1928, W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, Vintage, published 2000, page v:


vegetarianly

vegetarianly (comparative more vegetarianly, superlative most vegetarianly)

more vegetarianly (comparative)
most vegetarianly (superlative)

I have said it must be reserved for us two and that they must feed us semi-vegetarianly. I put semi- because I thought otherwise they’d give us only French beans and bread—you take eggs and fish, don’t you?

1905 June, Harley Granville-Barker, “Gilbert Murray, 1866–1957”, in Eric Salmon, editor, Granville Barker and His Correspondents: A Selection of Letters by Him and to Him, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, published 1986, →ISBN, page 220:

Let no one tell you that one needs meat, fowl and dairy products and eggs to make a tasty delicious meal. Grand epicurean treats can be prepared vegetarianly. And remember, this is a meat-lover speaking.

1965, John H. Tobe, “What to Eat”, in Guideposts to Health and Vigorous Long Life, St. Catharines, Ont.: Modern Publications Reg’d., published September 1971 (7th printing), section 5 (Proper Food), page 134:

Two creative women dynamos will clean house, care for pets, plants, housesit, cook vegetarianly, whatever.

1976 January 30, Lauren, Beth, “Home Services Directory”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 10, number 17, San Francisco, Calif.: Bay Guardian Co., Inc., page 23, column 3:

The basic question is: board and room at a large hotel (for instance, the one where I am now living very well, vegetarianly well, not exactly sharply thought out, but still) or a small private pension.

1982 [1920 April 6], Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Winston and Clara Winston, “1920”, in N[ahum] N[orbert] Glatzer, editor, Letters to Ottla and the Family, New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN, page 42:

During rehearsals they often lunched vegetarianly together at the Queen’s Restaurant in Sloane Square – apples, cheese, macaroni and salads with chilly milk and soda.

1989, Michael Holroyd, chapter III, in Bernard Shaw, 1st American edition, volume II (1898–1918: The Pursuit of Power), New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, section 3, page 155:

And while they will eat bread, they are insectivores, meaning that they are designed for eating animals. Whatever Aristotle may have thought, hedgehogs are not vegetarianly inclined.

2008, Hugh Warwick, “How We Can Look After Hedgehogs”, in A Prickly Affair: My Life with Hedgehogs, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, part 3 (Save the Hedgehog – Save the World), page 256:

If I ate stupidly, Americanly, vegetarianly, for sixty years, how might plant-based eating produce longevity, plus a healing endothelium?

2013, Thomas Larson, “The Sanctuary of Illness”, in The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease, Albany, N.Y.: Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, →ISBN, section 4, page 124:


accomplishedly

accomplishedly (comparative more accomplishedly, superlative most accomplishedly)

more accomplishedly (comparative)
most accomplishedly (superlative)

The eye indeede ſeeth with the Chriſtallline humor, but it ſeeth perfectly and more accompliſhedly with the whole Organe or Inſtrument.

1631, Helkiah Crooke, “The Eighth Booke. Of the Senses and their Instruments, as also of the Voyce. The Præface.”, in Μικροκοσμογραφια. A Description of the Body of Man. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas and Richard Cotes, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, […], page 530:

She was elegantly and most accomplishedly educated by them, and lived with these invaluable and estimable parents until she was married to her present husband, […]

1815 October 1, “Somersetshire”, in The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register: […], volume XL (part II for 1815), number 3 (274 overall), London: J[ames] Adlard, […] for Sir Richard Phillips, page 286, column 1:

Valentine moved like a fish through water, accomplishedly, barely stirring the silence.

1982, Alice Thomas Ellis, chapter 2, in The 27th Kingdom, London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., →ISBN, page 26:


quippily

quippily (comparative more quippily, superlative most quippily)

more quippily (comparative)
most quippily (superlative)


pitch-perfectly

pitch-perfectly (comparative more pitch-perfectly, superlative most pitch-perfectly)

more pitch-perfectly (comparative)
most pitch-perfectly (superlative)


veganly

veganly (comparative more veganly, superlative most veganly)

more veganly (comparative)
most veganly (superlative)

Yours veganly / George Malkie

1985, Peace News for Nonviolent Revolution, numbers 2236–2259, page 16:

How do you satisfy a chocoholic veganly?????

1994 April 13, Donald Graft, “Vegan chocolate?”, in rec.food.veg (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-09-04:

Allow your kids to splurge (veganly) every once in a while. […] Aging Gracefully and Veganly […] Eating veganly without complication

2010, Alexandra Jamieson, Living Vegan For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 295 and 313:

The rumpus shall pump us: Sets by MVSCLZ, Bill Converse (MenRG), and DJ Yayyay. Then refresh yourself veganly, then rump us some mo’.

2010 April 23, James Renovitch, “Calendar: This week’s community listings”, in Louis Black, editor, The Austin Chronicle, volume 29, number 34, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, page 64, column 3:

“Care for some of Orville’s finest butter-free popcorn?” / “It’s the only kind I can eat,” Madison said. “I mean, veganly speaking.”

2011, John Kloepfer, Sludgment Day (The Zombie Chasers; 3), New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 151:

“Kiel vivi vegane” (“How to Live Veganly”) is the name of a leaflet Slim [Alizadeh] distributes the night he gives his gruesome PowerPoint presentation about agribusiness.

2016, Esther Schor, “‘A Stay-at-Home, Midwestern Guy’”, in Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part I (The Dream of a Universal Language), section “Samideanoj I: NASK, or Total Immersion”, page 46:

Wooly Bob wandered over and tried his hand at various hypotheses, even going so far as to contemplate an association between our third soldier and the grassy knoll, but after a minute or two of hearing Jimmy Hoffa, Judge Crater, and Kermit the Frog all tied into a web of intrigue, we cut him off and sent him back to Wooly Bob Land, a cubicle of such veganly holistic power, none of us dared enter.

2018, Mark Zaslove, chapter 15, in Death and Taxes (Tales of a Badass IRS Agent; 1), Santa Monica, Calif.: Aperient Press, →ISBN, page 164:

2018 November 3, Lindy Mechefske, “Eating more vegan-ly may be healthy in many ways”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., →ISSN, page A6

She encourages people to do the best they can with what they have and demonstrates that it is easy to live veganly.

2019 May/June, Vegworld, number 52 (The Athlete Issue), page 76:

He [MJ Gazali] will be releasing three new menus in the weeks ahead: Veganly Yours, Glutenly Freed and VeggieMate.

2019 July 2, Brian Taylor Carlson, “Gazali’s plans to stay put as Drake development looms”, in The Des Moines Register, volume 171, number 7, Des Moines, Ia., page 4A, column 3:

FDC is […] 5. Indistinguishable, veganly speaking, from said bougie beverages, they that are thick with cone-bra caps of whip and cascading ropy swirls of flaxen caramel

2019 September, Lagusta Yearwood, “Frozen Drinking Chocolate”, in Sweet + Salty: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels, and More from Lagusta’s Luscious, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Lifelong Books, →ISBN:

Veganly Convenient, in Strood High Street welcomed its first batch of diners on February 13 but has now shut up shop due to dwindling customer numbers.

2022 July 25, Alex Langridge, “Vegan restaurants Veganly Convenient in Strood and Viva Las Vegan in Maidstone close”, in KentOnline, Medway, Kent: KM Media Group, archived from the original on 2022-07-25:

But “you” are also me, before, during, later, over the foil, the lover, the ham & cheese who will not eat herself. Veganly, you undo yourself in hopes that after a time you can sneak back in.

2023, Brenda Shaughnessy, “‘You’—my friend I made and lost, I did not write”, in Tanya: Poems, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, section III (Tanya), page 59:

I showcase the particular processes, relations, and materiality of organizing food veganly, and how this crosses the boundary of how ‘vegan’ is conventionally defined.

2023, Steffen Hirth, “Stockfree’s Short Shadow: Shifting Food Systems Towards Sustainability by Re-thinking Veganism as a Performative Practice of Production”, in Linda Tallberg, Lindsay Hamilton, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Sustainability, Identity, and Ethics: Animals in Production and Consumption Systems), page 301:


tout suite

(slang) Alternative form of tout de suite (anglicized form)


woollenly

woollenly (comparative more woollenly, superlative most woollenly)

more woollenly (comparative)
most woollenly (superlative)

He heard them woollenly, through the throbbing in his head.

1955, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Arm-Ring”, in Outcast, London: Oxford University Press, published 1966, page 62:

‘We’re going to make friends in here,’ I bellowed woollenly through the scarf tied bandit-style round my face.

1999, Tim Moore, Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 267:

Mimi struggled back into the present, woollenly trying to place herself in time and space, struggling to separate dreams of the past from the solidly temporal.

2010, Charles Ellingworth, “Saxony. Ten days later. 13 February 1945”, in Silent Night, London: Quartet Books, →ISBN, page 122:


moreishly

moreishly (comparative more moreishly, superlative most moreishly)

more moreishly (comparative)
most moreishly (superlative)


abusingly

It is important to be able to separate the first waves of culture shock reaction to any sex and brutality from instances in which they are being used exploitatively and abusingly.

1978 December 23, Michael Bronski, “Notes and Thoughts by One Gay Man on Pornography and Censorship”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 11:


coniferously

coniferously (comparative more coniferously, superlative most coniferously)

more coniferously (comparative)
most coniferously (superlative)

(rare) In a coniferous manner; in a way characteristic of conifers.


otterly

otterly (comparative more otterly, superlative most otterly)

more otterly (comparative)
most otterly (superlative)

Alternative form of utterly, used for involving otters.


the house down

Probably an ellipsis of bring the house down (“to garner enthusiastic or wild applause or laughter”).

ellipsis

Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.

2021 December 2, Raffy Ermac, “Meet the Sickening Queens of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 14”, in Out:

[see title]

2024 June 12, Jess Reynolds, “47 pics from D.C.'s Capital Pride Parade 2024 that are boots the house (and Senate) down queer joy”, in Out:

(drag slang) Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.


the house

As for Lindsay [Hubbard], it’s like this Courrèges dress was hand dyed to look as excellent on her as a dress could possibly look. Her breasts are sat, her waist snatched, and all the other sorts of things I could possibly say about a girl boss queen who slays boots the house.

2024 May 16, Joan Summers, “So Chic, Very Chic: Trade of the Season”, in Paper:

(drag slang) Ellipsis of the house down.


unhaphazardly

en-adv

unhaphazardly (comparative more unhaphazardly, superlative most unhaphazardly)

more unhaphazardly (comparative)
most unhaphazardly (superlative)


bohemianly

bohemianly (comparative more bohemianly, superlative most bohemianly)

more bohemianly (comparative)
most bohemianly (superlative)

He may, here and there, have departed from the Italian type in his female figures — and elsewhere, perhaps admitted a little incongruity — the “ Doge,” for instance, is much too modernly respectable and proper, as the gondolier, on the other hand, is too Bohemianly theatrical in his air— […]

1874 November 7, John Forbes-Robertson, “Art. Hans Makart's Picture of "Venice Doing Homage to Catarina Cornaro."”, in The Examiner, number 3484, page 1222, column 1:

That sent a shivery lick over my balls. I pictured something nice and bohemianly romantic. Candles and wine on the fire escape—did we have a fire escape? Then a good long fuck. Maybe in a lukewarm shower if the Bbros were off property.

2017, K.A. Mitchell, chapter 3, in Relationship Status, Carina Press:


allegededly

Intentional misspelling of allegedly (“according to someone's allegation”) through the duplication of -ed (“used to form the past tenses of most verbs”). Used to mock the frequent use of the term by the media, especially in contexts where the evidence is ostensibly sufficient enough to warrant factualness; see the usage notes of allegedly.

Considering the source I'd say he's confusing a DNA swab with a gc/chlamydia swab. Since he *allegededly* has unprotected sex with several partners, I'd guess he's had both done

Hate is a strong word, but I hate this man. He’s as trash of a human being as he is amazing as a fighter. And he’s legitimately one of the greatest fighters of all time. Man has a long list of high profile arrests and recently (allegededly) beat the fuck out of his wife. Trash.

It's FRAUD. (allegededly)

2023 November 28, @William232393, Twitter:

ALLEGEDEDLY !!!! i s2g if this stupid tweet has the police knocking down my gaff door i will cry 😭😭😭

(chiefly Internet slang, humorous, rare) Deliberate misspelling of allegedly.


allegededly

The inference, of course, to be drawn by this Board, that the cause of the fight on the morning of December 1, 1967, allegededly Involved the same provocative act as that which occurred on May 15, 1968.

1969, “Labor Arbitration Reports”, in Labor Relations Reporter, volume 51, Bureau of National Affairs, page 773:

Roy was allegededly a non-combatant who served several tours of duty in Vietnam as a motor pool specialist. He received a bullet wound to his head. Tom, a marine who recently died, officially had eight weeks TDY as a non-combatant in a MACV motor pool.

1995 January 5, United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Viewpoints on Veterans Affairs and Related Issues, volume 51, United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, →ISBN, page 84:

An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty after allegededly threatening to kill several Republican politicians, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

2023 August 4, Ken Miller, “Man pleads guilty to threatening DeSantis, other Republican politicians”, in Los Angeles Times:


urbanly

urbanly (comparative more urbanly, superlative most urbanly)

more urbanly (comparative)
most urbanly (superlative)

From urban + -ly. Piecewise doublet of urbanely.

Rural Britain, except in its picturesqueness, with the peer, the squire and the parson, Giles and Hodge, and their ploughs and their flocks and herds, as objects of the landscape, has been beyond the interests of those within whose vision there are mainly pitheads, chimney-stacks or tramp steamers, of people who are street-bound, of a population whose minds function urbanly and suburbanly.

1921, The World’s Work, volume XXXIX, New York, N.Y., page 510, column 1:

Harding is a small-town man. Yet there is more misapprehension concerning Harding among the small-towners than there is among those of his critics who dwell urbanly, save among a certain noisy section who dwell urbanly in the editorial rooms of various daily newspapers. But both urbanly and suburbanly there is plenty.

1923, Samuel G[eorge] Blythe, A Calm Review of a Calm Man, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 11:

each skin meticulously meted and matched, each shoe molded and manipulated almost as if it were a rare sculpture... yet each design of superb simplicity; meant to literally live with you, urbanly-suburbanly, for a long long time.

1953 August 26, “the distinguished Townley alligators”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXII, Los Angeles, Calif., part 1, page 4:


hangrily

hangrily (comparative more hangrily, superlative most hangrily)

more hangrily (comparative)
most hangrily (superlative)


edgeling

en-adverb

edgeling (comparative more edgeling, superlative most edgeling)

more edgeling (comparative)
most edgeling (superlative)

From Middle English eggelyng, eghelynge (also eggelynges), from Old English eċġlinga (“on the edge”), equivalent to edge + -ling.

Nay, on the contrary, I think it morally impossible for any Body, that is much broader than 'tis thick, if it casually gets edgewise between two Stakes, whose Distance will not let it lie flat, but it must continue more or less edgeling, 'till 'tis disintangled.

1778, Francis Hargrave, A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings for High-Treason and and other Crimes and Misdemeanours:

(archaic) On, toward, or from the edge; edgeways.


rearrangeably

en-adv

rearrangeably (comparative more rearrangeably, superlative most rearrangeably)

more rearrangeably (comparative)
most rearrangeably (superlative)

… a first countershaft gear drivingly and axially rearrangeably mounted on said countershaft, …

1952 January 1, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 654, number 1, page 289:

The nonblocking cross-connects may be subdivided into two categories: rearrangeably nonblocking (RNB) and strictly nonblocking (SSNB).

2002, Ivan P. Kaminow, Tingye Li, Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV, volume 1, page 361:


anyhowly

From anyhow + -ly. First attested in 1949.

Nabumbo Promise spoke, her voice low, almost a whisper. You're all grown now, huh? Youre going to talk to me just anyhowly now, huh?

2022, Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost, New York, N.Y. […]: Scribner, →ISBN, page 353:

(now East Africa, Singapore) In any which way; haphazardly, arbitrarily.


learily

learily (comparative more learily, superlative most learily)

more learily (comparative)
most learily (superlative)


unbrilliantly

unbrilliantly (comparative more unbrilliantly, superlative most unbrilliantly)

more unbrilliantly (comparative)
most unbrilliantly (superlative)

In a unbrilliant manner; without brilliance.


eliminatingly

eliminatingly (comparative more eliminatingly, superlative most eliminatingly)

more eliminatingly (comparative)
most eliminatingly (superlative)


half to death

Jim scared her half to death when he approached her with such an unusual strut.

He was beaten half to death during the fight.

(hyperbolic) To an extreme or excessive degree, related to how a person feels or is affected.


nonmonogamously

From nonmonogamous + -ly or non- + monogamously.

I identified as a single guy. I went from that to dating nonmonogamously.

2024 April 15, Daniel Bergner, “A 20-Person Polycule on Boundaries, Relationships and Intimacy”, in The New York Times Magazine:


unviciously

unviciously (comparative more unviciously, superlative most unviciously)

more unviciously (comparative)
most unviciously (superlative)


aseasonally

aseasonally (comparative more aseasonally, superlative most aseasonally)

more aseasonally (comparative)
most aseasonally (superlative)


unferociously

unferociously (comparative more unferociously, superlative most unferociously)

more unferociously (comparative)
most unferociously (superlative)


needlewise

From needle + -wise. First use appears c. 1873. See cite below.

(uncommon) In the direction of a needle; into a needle.

He peered into my masque as though his funny black eyes could pierce it needlewise.

1873, Edgar Fawcett, Purple and Fine Linen: A Novel, page 316:

The Professor touched two needles, ordinary sewing needles, with a strong magnet. He did not stroke them, he just touched them, then picked them off the magnet. Next he put them needlewise through a piece of brown paper, threading them in and out.

1915, British Architect (architect), The British Architect, Volume 83, page 62:

Jiggers swarmed and it is easier to keep feet covered than to have to prospect needlewise, afterwards, so vast an acreage for invisible scratch-producers.

1917, Gertrude Singleton Mathews, Treasure, page 215:

For now that even I, the youngest, was well out of hand needlewise-or supposed to be-though it was almost proverbial that I did not love my needle and was much more dexterous in the use of hammer, rake or spade-there were grandchildren coming on who needed stitches.

1926, Mabel Osgood Wright, My New York, page 240:

And each head has a hundred eyes and each eye is fire-hot; and he has a hundred hands and on each hand one hundred and twenty fingers, and one each finger one hundred nails, and each is needlewise sharpened.

1934, John Robert Sala, Preaching in the Anglo-Saxon Church, page 136:

The ends were then held together and fastened securely with medium-sized wire nails, used needlewise, placing them about six inches apart.

1938, Massachusetts Horticultural Society (contributor), The Gardener's Omnibus, page 287:

If you're needlewise, embroider matching flowers on napkins.

1944, Making of America Project (contributor), House Beautiful, Volume 86, page 59:

In the 'amp' form 'meths' is generally taken needlewise.

1968, Lord Shayne, Drug Addiction, page 20:

The question is as much as the production of regularly finished parts on flat knitting machines is economically feasible as well as the approved method of needlewise taking off loops and adding by groups used frequently in sleeve manufacture is discussed.

1977, Institute of Textile Technology (Charlottesville, Va.) (contributor), Textile Technology Digest, Volume 34, page 2:

Generous in support of my work, he never stopped (or so my projection runs) egging me on, needlewise.

1987, Simon Fraser University, Contemporary Literature Collection (contributor), Line, Issues 9-10, page 6:

Needlewise, we would be remiss not to mention the latest wizardry in whizz-bang weaponry for our addiction-army, the so-called "cocaine-vaccine."

1999, Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (contributor), Journal of Cognitive Liberties, Volume 1, page 57:

One prick, needlewise, at a certain hot blooded nerve point beneath a woman's tender ankle and she would coil with rampant desire and contort for condign punishments.

2012, Da Chen, My Last Empress, A Novel, page 208:


clumpily

clumpily (comparative more clumpily, superlative most clumpily)

more clumpily (comparative)
most clumpily (superlative)


consideratively

consideratively (comparative more consideratively, superlative most consideratively)

more consideratively (comparative)
most consideratively (superlative)


contrastably

contrastably (comparative more contrastably, superlative most contrastably)

more contrastably (comparative)
most contrastably (superlative)


coetaneously

coetaneously (comparative more coetaneously, superlative most coetaneously)

more coetaneously (comparative)
most coetaneously (superlative)


candescently

candescently (comparative more candescently, superlative most candescently)

more candescently (comparative)
most candescently (superlative)


crenately

crenately (comparative more crenately, superlative most crenately)

more crenately (comparative)
most crenately (superlative)


clavately

clavately (comparative more clavately, superlative most clavately)

more clavately (comparative)
most clavately (superlative)


cloggily

cloggily (comparative more cloggily, superlative most cloggily)

more cloggily (comparative)
most cloggily (superlative)


cheapishly

cheapishly (comparative more cheapishly, superlative most cheapishly)

more cheapishly (comparative)
most cheapishly (superlative)


half-way

Returning back to the Arabic vowel system (Figure 4), it falls half-way between the English and Spanish systems.

2014, Edward Y. Odisho, “Some Primary Sources of Accent Generation in the Pronunciation of Arabic by Native Speakers of English”, in Mediterranean Language Review, volume 21, →DOI, page 100 of 91–104:


gracilely

gracilely (comparative more gracilely, superlative most gracilely)

more gracilely (comparative)
most gracilely (superlative)