mythohistorically

mythohistorically (comparative more mythohistorically, superlative most mythohistorically)

more mythohistorically (comparative)
most mythohistorically (superlative)


torturedly

en-adv

torturedly (comparative more torturedly, superlative most torturedly)

more torturedly (comparative)
most torturedly (superlative)

At one point he torturedly mimics his own emotions to provide Lucy's gasps as she lies dying of syphilis.

2007, Bruce Babington, A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film, page 214:


all to

all to (comparative more all to, superlative most all to)

more all to (comparative)
most all to (superlative)

From expressions such as all to break, all to split, all to broken, formed from the incorrect division of words containing the prefix to- (e.g. all tobreak, all tosplit, all tobroken). Equivalent to all + to-.


to-heap

to-heap (comparative more to-heap, superlative most to-heap)

more to-heap (comparative)
most to-heap (superlative)

From Middle English tohepe, equivalent to to- + heap. Compare Old Frisian tohape, tehape, tohope, Danish tilhobe, Swedish tillhopa.


nonthematically

In a nonthematic manner; not thematically.


all on a sudden

(chiefly Scotland) Alternative form of all of a sudden


torely

torely (comparative more torely, superlative most torely)

more torely (comparative)
most torely (superlative)

From Middle English torely, torly; equivalent to tore + -ly. More at tore.

(dialectal or obsolete) With difficulty; hardly; stoutly; firmly.


toyear

From Middle English toyere; equivalent to to- + year.

Betty hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang […].

1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, I.2:

(obsolete) This year, in this year; during the year.


tearingly

tearingly (comparative more tearingly, superlative most tearingly)

more tearingly (comparative)
most tearingly (superlative)

The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.

The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...

2005, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa, page 376:


X-country

They took a red-eye flight X-country.


swingingly

swingingly (comparative more swingingly, superlative most swingingly)

more swingingly (comparative)
most swingingly (superlative)

The party was slow to start, but by the end of the night it was going swingingly.

(informal) Very well or with great success; splendidly.


conservationally

Despite the darkened walls and conservationally correct dim lights, nearly all of these works are attention grabbers that first look naïve and awkward and then start to unfold, revealing a sustaining intuitive intelligence.

2007 June 8, Roberta Smith, “When Home Was Where the Art Was”, in New York Times:


rawly

rawly (comparative more rawly, superlative most rawly)

more rawly (comparative)
most rawly (superlative)

She was pretty and her low-cut baju showed a delicious expanse of warm milky-brown neck. The boys teased her, guffawing rawly.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 443:

Noche Flamenca, which returned to Theater 80 in the East Village last week for its summer season, does a pretty good job of all this even if its new program, “Aldaba,” is heavily weighted toward the rawly emotional side of flamenco, with mixed results.

2007 June 9, Roslyn Sulcas, “Spanish Guitars, Fast Footwork, Everything but the Cafe”, in New York Times:


unrewardingly

unrewardingly (comparative more unrewardingly, superlative most unrewardingly)

more unrewardingly (comparative)
most unrewardingly (superlative)


eftsones

(archaic) Alternative spelling of eftsoons.


shieldwise

shieldwise (comparative more shieldwise, superlative most shieldwise)

more shieldwise (comparative)
most shieldwise (superlative)

The dog immediately bristled up, and I had just time to take off my hat, and hold it shieldwise in self-defence, when he came on and made directly at it.

1844, Charles Waterton, Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology, page 114:

In the manner of a shield; as a protective barrier.


shruggingly

shruggingly (comparative more shruggingly, superlative most shruggingly)

more shruggingly (comparative)
most shruggingly (superlative)

But the young girl discards it, displeased by its scent, and the rose is tossed to the ground and hardly noticed by the student as he shruggingly steps over the nightingale’s body.

2007 June 11, Jennifer Dunning, “The Night Christopher Wheeldon Met Oscar Wilde”, in New York Times:


unweetingly

unweetingly (comparative more unweetingly, superlative most unweetingly)

more unweetingly (comparative)
most unweetingly (superlative)

Equivalent to unweeting + -ly or un- + weetingly.


hydrothermally

hydrothermally (comparative more hydrothermally, superlative most hydrothermally)

more hydrothermally (comparative)
most hydrothermally (superlative)


orotundly

orotundly (comparative more orotundly, superlative most orotundly)

more orotundly (comparative)
most orotundly (superlative)


unjudgmentally

unjudgmentally (comparative more unjudgmentally, superlative most unjudgmentally)

more unjudgmentally (comparative)
most unjudgmentally (superlative)


unjudgementally

unjudgementally (comparative more unjudgementally, superlative most unjudgementally)

more unjudgementally (comparative)
most unjudgementally (superlative)


orful

"It's orful silly of you to stick to that notion!

1892, Various, Golden Days for Boys and Girls:

"He felt orful bad at not bein' invited, and made some poetry about 'em.

1898, Hezekiah Butterworth, In The Boyhood of Lincoln:

"You are a orful naughty girl," he pouted reproachfully.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


oxishly

oxishly (comparative more oxishly, superlative most oxishly)

more oxishly (comparative)
most oxishly (superlative)

The shy young man gazed like a calf, blushed when she looked at him, smiled oxishly when she talked, and forgot to eat his dinner.

1925, Aldous Huxley, “Wander-birds”, in Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, part I (Travel in General), page 29:

He blinked at us, yawned oxishly, and went out again.

2009, Adam Roberts, chapter 9, in Yellow Blue Tibia, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 114:

I saw The Exorcist when I was thirteen, and I’ve never really recovered from Regan’s grinning gray-green face. The oxishly horned devil in Legend mesmerized me.

2017 July 31, Debi Moore, quoting Benjamin Percy, “Guest Post: Benjamin Percy Faces His Digital Demons for The Dark Net”, in Dread Central, archived from the original on 2017-09-29:


inequally

inequally (comparative more inequally, superlative most inequally)

more inequally (comparative)
most inequally (superlative)


unyouthfully

unyouthfully (comparative more unyouthfully, superlative most unyouthfully)

more unyouthfully (comparative)
most unyouthfully (superlative)


unimpededly

unimpededly (comparative more unimpededly, superlative most unimpededly)

more unimpededly (comparative)
most unimpededly (superlative)


improvingly

improvingly (comparative more improvingly, superlative most improvingly)

more improvingly (comparative)
most improvingly (superlative)

1856, Eliza Edmondston, Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, Chapter 12 “The Fowler,” p. 140,
[…] so fascinating and exciting is this method of idling away time which might be much more profitably and improvingly employed, that many of the fishermen frequent the cliffs, and peril their lives in the forbidden pursuit.

1927, H. G. Wells, Meanwhile, New York: George H. Doran, Book II, “View,” § 10, p. 222,
There are no newspapers and the broadcasting is given over to twaddle—there was a fellow gassing most improvingly about ants and grasshoppers yesterday—mixed up with slabs of biassed news and anti-strike propaganda.

Technology refines slaughter into benign surgery: Kipling calls the abattoir an “operating-room.” Nature has been improvingly obliterated by the machine.

1980, Peter Conrad, chapter 4, in Imagining America, New York: Oxford University Press, page 104:

In a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).


hellaciously

hellaciously (comparative more hellaciously, superlative most hellaciously)

more hellaciously (comparative)
most hellaciously (superlative)


undeterredly

undeterredly (comparative more undeterredly, superlative most undeterredly)

more undeterredly (comparative)
most undeterredly (superlative)


disheveledly

disheveledly (comparative more disheveledly, superlative most disheveledly)

more disheveledly (comparative)
most disheveledly (superlative)


dishevelledly

dishevelledly (comparative more dishevelledly, superlative most dishevelledly)

more dishevelledly (comparative)
most dishevelledly (superlative)


discombobulatedly

discombobulatedly (comparative more discombobulatedly, superlative most discombobulatedly)

more discombobulatedly (comparative)
most discombobulatedly (superlative)


endlang

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English andlang (“on length, along, continuously”), from Proto-Germanic *and- + *lang-, equivalent to Old English and- (prefix) + long. More at endlong, along.

inh

(provincial, Northern England) Lengthways; along.


concentratedly

en-adv

concentratedly (comparative more concentratedly, superlative most concentratedly)

more concentratedly (comparative)
most concentratedly (superlative)

This current is then released, concentratedly, thru a narrow aperture formed by the dropping of a carefully restricted portion of the middle of the tongue tip.

1929, Richard Carman Borden, Alvin Clayton Busse, Speech correction:


loadsa

"Loadsa money for loadsa goodies," he chuckled.

2003, Michael Wordsmiff, James Baggit and the Storyteller's Ring, →ISBN:


squidgily

squidgily (comparative more squidgily, superlative most squidgily)

more squidgily (comparative)
most squidgily (superlative)


dawdlingly

dawdlingly (comparative more dawdlingly, superlative most dawdlingly)

more dawdlingly (comparative)
most dawdlingly (superlative)


binaurally

In a binaural fashion; using or pertaining to both ears.


to wisse

From to + wisse (“certain, sure”). More at wis.

That wite thu to wisse […]


speedingly

speedingly (comparative more speedingly, superlative most speedingly)

more speedingly (comparative)
most speedingly (superlative)

We are speedingly going the same way as ancient Greece and Rome.

1977, William T Bruner, The sex problem: its cause, its curse, and its cure:


slap bang

2010, Nick Clegg at the NUS conference in April
I hope your conference is going to go well. You've certainly chosen a great time to hold it – slap bang in the middle of a general election campaign.


seasonabliest

There he, as wine in June, enrages blood, / Which then comes seasonabliest […]

superlative form of seasonably: most seasonably


silkenly

silkenly (comparative more silkenly, superlative most silkenly)

more silkenly (comparative)
most silkenly (superlative)

1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, London: Saunders & Otley, p. 155,
This is not the doctrine, my friends, of the silkenly and lawnly religious; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman, and walks uprightly and straightforward under it.

He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.

1939, Edna Ferber, chapter 9, in A Peculiar Treasure, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., page 145:

[…] there was a rush of warm wind and I felt it on my face, felt it moving silkenly across my face […]

1969, Chaim Potok, chapter 16, in The Promise, New York: Knopf Doubleday, published 2012, page 359:


swishily

swishily (comparative more swishily, superlative most swishily)

more swishily (comparative)
most swishily (superlative)


unmelodramatically

unmelodramatically (comparative more unmelodramatically, superlative most unmelodramatically)

more unmelodramatically (comparative)
most unmelodramatically (superlative)


unimposingly

unimposingly (comparative more unimposingly, superlative most unimposingly)

more unimposingly (comparative)
most unimposingly (superlative)


unmemorably

unmemorably (comparative more unmemorably, superlative most unmemorably)

more unmemorably (comparative)
most unmemorably (superlative)


wisly

wisly (comparative more wisly, superlative most wisly)

more wisly (comparative)
most wisly (superlative)

From Middle English wisly (“certainly”), equivalent to wis + -ly.

(rare, dialectal, obsolete) Certainly; surely.


vyingly

vyingly (comparative more vyingly, superlative most vyingly)

more vyingly (comparative)
most vyingly (superlative)


A.C.

AC

alternating current, anno Christi, ante Christum, army corps, athletic club


polysynthetically

polysynthetically twinned crystals


unjustifiedly

unjustifiedly (comparative more unjustifiedly, superlative most unjustifiedly)

more unjustifiedly (comparative)
most unjustifiedly (superlative)

Without justification; in an unjustified manner.


antiscientifically

antiscientifically (comparative more antiscientifically, superlative most antiscientifically)

more antiscientifically (comparative)
most antiscientifically (superlative)


vampily

vampily (comparative more vampily, superlative most vampily)

more vampily (comparative)
most vampily (superlative)


witherward

witherward (comparative more witherward, superlative most witherward)

more witherward (comparative)
most witherward (superlative)

From Middle English witherward, from Old English wiþerweard (“contrary, adverse, hostile”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþrawardaz (“contrary, adverse, in opposition”); equivalent to wither (“against”) + -ward. Cognate with Old High German widarwart (“witherward”), German widerwärtig (“adverse, repulsive”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (wiþrawairþs, “witherward”).


morphically

en-adv

morphically (comparative more morphically, superlative most morphically)

more morphically (comparative)
most morphically (superlative)


winly

winly (comparative more winly, superlative most winly)

more winly (comparative)
most winly (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English winly, wynnelych, wunliche, from Old English wynlīċ (“joyous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjulīk (“joyous”), from *wunjō (“joy, delight, desire”), equivalent to winne + -ly. More at winne, winsome.


perquire

en-adverb

perquire (comparative more perquire, superlative most perquire)

more perquire (comparative)
most perquire (superlative)

I perceive you have gotten a paper from some of these rebellious ministers, and has gotten your answers perquire

1821, William Sutherland, The Genuine Declaration of William Sutherland, Hangman at Irvine:


paciently

en-adv

paciently (comparative more paciently, superlative most paciently)

more paciently (comparative)
most paciently (superlative)


would have liked to

Ultimately from re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as a verb. See like to.

I’d have liked to died laughing!


nonrelativistically

From non- + relativistically or nonrelativistic + -ally.


pagemeal

Had we any ground of suspicion to stand on, that it was written by a person we dislike, or that dislikes us, we surely need not say how pleasant it would be to tear it pagemeal, and fling it in the author's face.


toforetime

Also there cam a table of sylver, and the holy vessell of the Sankgreall, which Sir Launcelot had sene toforetyme in Kynge Pecchers house.

1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:


dissatisfyingly

dissatisfyingly (comparative more dissatisfyingly, superlative most dissatisfyingly)

more dissatisfyingly (comparative)
most dissatisfyingly (superlative)


unendearingly

unendearingly (comparative more unendearingly, superlative most unendearingly)

more unendearingly (comparative)
most unendearingly (superlative)


forthen

From Middle English forthen, from Old English forþon, furþon, furþum (“even, exactly, quite, already, just as, at first, further, previously”), from forþ (“forth”). More at forth.


unwearily

unwearily (comparative more unwearily, superlative most unwearily)

more unwearily (comparative)
most unwearily (superlative)


leafmeal

Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]

1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51:

(poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.


exgratia

(chiefly India) Alternative form of ex gratia


murally

(heraldry) With a mural crown; found chiefly in the phrases murally crowned and murally gorged.


narcissistically

narcissistically (comparative more narcissistically, superlative most narcissistically)

more narcissistically (comparative)
most narcissistically (superlative)


apodictically

apodictically (comparative more apodictically, superlative most apodictically)

more apodictically (comparative)
most apodictically (superlative)


swith

swith (comparative more swith, superlative most swith)

more swith (comparative)
most swith (superlative)

From Middle English swith, swithe, from Old English swīþe (“very much, exceedingly, severely, violently, fiercely”), from Proto-Germanic *swinþa (“strongly”), from Proto-Indo-European *swento- (“active, healthy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian swied (“very”), Low German swied (“quite, very”). Not cognate to superficially similar swift.

der

As ye disown yon paughty dog, / That bears the keys of Peter, / Then swith! an' get a wife to hug,

“Body of us, man!” said the king, “it is the speech of a true man and a loving subject, and we will grace him accordingly—what though he be but a carle—a twopenny cat may look at a king. Swith, man! have him—pundite fores.

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVII, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

(dialectal or obsolete) Quickly, speedily, promptly.

(dialectal or obsolete) Strongly; vehemently; very.


as in

"bow" as in the weapon, not the front of a ship

Getting to the bottom of Selmes' thinking is not the easiest of tasks but what in essence he is doing is trading a mummy (as in King Tut) for a big daddy (as in Tennessee Williams).

1972, Investors Chronicle and Stock Exchange Gazette, volume 22:

'You won't even have to touch me if you don't want to,' he said witheringly. 'But we are going to sleep together. As in spend the nights side by side.'

(idiomatic, conjunctive) In the sense of.

That's B as in boy.

I've been getting acupuncture mostly, which is really good. It doesn't make things not happen, as in, I still got bronchitis, but it relieves a lot of the symptoms and helps me get through the day more and more.

1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

In Sweden, as in most countries, ...

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, in.


old-fashionedly

en-adv

old-fashionedly (comparative more old-fashionedly, superlative most old-fashionedly)

more old-fashionedly (comparative)
most old-fashionedly (superlative)


unsociably

unsociably (comparative more unsociably, superlative most unsociably)

more unsociably (comparative)
most unsociably (superlative)


furst

I took a v'y'ge to Australia furst, just to put her out o' my mind a bit, an' I never seed her since.

"I was thinkin' it over, Stutter, all the way hoofin' it out yere," he said, chewing continually on his tobacco, "but sorter reckoned ez how yer ought ter see the writin' furst, considerin' ez how you're a full partner in this yere claim.

He started in on Microby Dandeline--we jest called her Dandeline furst, bein' thet yallar with janders when she wus a baby, but when she got about two year, I wus a readin' a piece in a paper a man left, 'bout these yere little microbys thet gits into everywheres they shouldn't ort to, jest like she done, so I says to Watts how she'd ort to had two names anyways, only I couldn't think of none but common ones when we give her hern.


defencelessly

defencelessly (comparative more defencelessly, superlative most defencelessly)

more defencelessly (comparative)
most defencelessly (superlative)


forthward

forthward (comparative more forthward, superlative most forthward)

more forthward (comparative)
most forthward (superlative)

From Middle English forthward, forthwardes, from Old English forþweard (“forward, tending forward, continual”), from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to forth- + -ward. Cognate with Old Saxon forþwerd, forþwerdes, forþwardes (“forthward”).


pooty

Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.

"Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus — dat's Miss Watson — she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:


RNTM

(text messaging) Initialism of right next to me.


scratchingly

en-adv

scratchingly (comparative more scratchingly, superlative most scratchingly)

more scratchingly (comparative)
most scratchingly (superlative)


overcrowdedly

overcrowdedly (comparative more overcrowdedly, superlative most overcrowdedly)

more overcrowdedly (comparative)
most overcrowdedly (superlative)

Yet some may feel that Strindberg became rather overcrowdedly multitudinous.

1962, Frank Laurence Lucas, The drama of Ibsen and Strindberg, page 308:


ideogrammatically

ideogrammatically (comparative more ideogrammatically, superlative most ideogrammatically)

more ideogrammatically (comparative)
most ideogrammatically (superlative)


scramblingly

scramblingly (comparative more scramblingly, superlative most scramblingly)

more scramblingly (comparative)
most scramblingly (superlative)

His leap brought him scramblingly down on all fours, out of the truck's way, but on the wrong side of the thoroughfare.

1919, Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog:


clawingly

clawingly (comparative more clawingly, superlative most clawingly)

more clawingly (comparative)
most clawingly (superlative)

He held one gigantic hand in front of her eyes so she could see it and smell it, then rammed it clawingly down her dress front.

1970, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, page 100:

It was May now and summer was on the ascent, the nights were warm but not yet clawingly humid and the constant South Dakota breeze was strangely absent tonight.

2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, page 288:

With a clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip.


belabouredly

belabouredly (comparative more belabouredly, superlative most belabouredly)

more belabouredly (comparative)
most belabouredly (superlative)


belaboredly

belaboredly (comparative more belaboredly, superlative most belaboredly)

more belaboredly (comparative)
most belaboredly (superlative)


unforch

And if you’ve been itching to get a fun hoodie of your own ever since you saw Tie-Dye Guy rock it, I’ve got some good news and, er, some bad news for ya. (The bad isn’t that bad, FWIW!) So unfortch, we’re not sure where we can get the exact hoodie from the show.

2022 June 27, Megan Uy, “Where to Get That Cute Tie-Dye Hoodie on ‘Only Murders in the Building’”, in Cosmopolitan:


siccer

From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.

inh

Alternative spelling of sicker (“certainly”)

Alternative spelling of sicker (“securely”)


straightforth

en-adv

straightforth (comparative more straightforth, superlative most straightforth)

more straightforth (comparative)
most straightforth (superlative)


lateward

lateward (comparative more lateward, superlative most lateward)

more lateward (comparative)
most lateward (superlative)


not a minute too soon

(idiomatic) at the last possible moment; just in time

She finally dumped her jerk boyfriend, and not a minute too soon

(idiomatic, sarcastic) after an undesirable delay; undesirably late


again and again

വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും

vīṇṭuṁ vīṇṭuṁ


many a time and oft

Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
 In the Rialto you have rated me
 About my monies, and my usances:

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

And all that winter, when at night
 The wind blew from the mountain-peak,
 'Twas worth your while, though in the dark,
 The church-yard path to seek:
 For many a time and oft were heard
 Cries coming from the mountain-head:

1798, William Wordsworth, “The Thorn”, in Henry Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, published 1851, page 183:

"How? And art thou indeed Little John, and Robin Hood's own right-hand man? Many a time and oft I heard of thee, but never did I hope to set eyes upon thee.[…]"

1883, Howard Pyle, “How Little John Lived at the Sherriff’s”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:

The three girl friends were seated on the rocks, enjoying the evening scene and the air which was fresh but not too chilly. Many a time and oft were they wont to come there to that favourite nook to have a cosy chat beside the sparkling waves and discuss matters feminine,[…].

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicäa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(archaic or literary, idiomatic) Frequently.


interracially

interracially (comparative more interracially, superlative most interracially)

more interracially (comparative)
most interracially (superlative)

Marrying interracially was not always socially acceptable.


answerably

answerably (comparative more answerably, superlative most answerably)

more answerably (comparative)
most answerably (superlative)

In suitable proportion; proportionately.

Many of the ships, as they could see by the clear moonshine, had weighed anchor, and, profiting by the calm sky, proceeded for more distant parts; answerably to this, the rude alehouses along the beach (although in defiance of the curfew law, they still shone with fire and candle) were no longer thronged with customers, and no longer echoed to the chorus of sea-songs.

1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:

In a corresponding manner; correspondingly.


mouthward

It lacks the little boom microphone jutting mouthward that many Bluetooth headsets have, and it more easily hides under hair.

2007 June 21, Marty Katz, “Another Step Toward Invisibility for the Cellphone Headset”, in New York Times:


correctively

correctively (comparative more correctively, superlative most correctively)

more correctively (comparative)
most correctively (superlative)

I would throw in radishes, too, which would add a correctively spicy bite to keep things from getting too cloying.

2007 June 20, Melissa Clark, “A Dish Whose Heart Longs for Spring”, in New York Times:

In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.


doggily

doggily (comparative more doggily, superlative most doggily)

more doggily (comparative)
most doggily (superlative)


unpeacefully

unpeacefully (comparative more unpeacefully, superlative most unpeacefully)

more unpeacefully (comparative)
most unpeacefully (superlative)


frozenly

frozenly (comparative more frozenly, superlative most frozenly)

more frozenly (comparative)
most frozenly (superlative)

While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.


downface

downface (comparative more downface, superlative most downface)

more downface (comparative)
most downface (superlative)

Also Mr. Warren was working downface. After making his last bar secure he shifted the overhanging coal, keeping himself and others safe.

1952, Coal; the NCB Magazine - Volume 6, page 30:

Sampling stations have been designated intake, maingate, 100 feet downface, and tailgate (fig. 4).

1974, Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations:

Ground water seepage along face and base of cliff below houses built along top with surface runoff scars visible downface of cliff.

1984, San Diego Coastal State Park System General Plan:

ABRAHAM (turning ISAAC over facedown): Therefore downface thou shall be laid, Then when I strike thou shall not see.

1988, Robert Cohen, Eight Plays For Theatre, page 67:


unpeaceably

unpeaceably (comparative more unpeaceably, superlative most unpeaceably)

more unpeaceably (comparative)
most unpeaceably (superlative)


intentively

intentively (comparative more intentively, superlative most intentively)

more intentively (comparative)
most intentively (superlative)


stabbingly

stabbingly (comparative more stabbingly, superlative most stabbingly)

more stabbingly (comparative)
most stabbingly (superlative)

After hours spent in the mine, the sunlight was stabbingly bright.

(sometimes figuratively) With a stabbing motion or action.


whizzingly

whizzingly (comparative more whizzingly, superlative most whizzingly)

more whizzingly (comparative)
most whizzingly (superlative)


queryingly

queryingly (comparative more queryingly, superlative most queryingly)

more queryingly (comparative)
most queryingly (superlative)


overflowingly

overflowingly (comparative more overflowingly, superlative most overflowingly)

more overflowingly (comparative)
most overflowingly (superlative)

So as to overflow; very excessively or generously.


shrinkingly

shrinkingly (comparative more shrinkingly, superlative most shrinkingly)

more shrinkingly (comparative)
most shrinkingly (superlative)

That shy-looking fellow standing against the curtain at your right, with the brown mustache and broad forehead, is the New England sculptor whose forcible creations are known everywhere, yet he is almost shrinkingly modest, and he never, it seems, even in thought, has broken the injunction of "Let another praise thee, not thine own lips."

1903, Mabel Osgood Wright, People of the Whirlpool:

Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with "Ichabod" legible on their murky foreheads through a vain smearing of toilet powder, dragging their chairs down to the narrow gateway of their close-fenced gardens, and staring shrinkingly at you as you pass, like a nest of yellow kittens.

1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:

For half a century that faithful servant of Jehovah suffered, often shrinkingly, yet voluntarily, a constant martyrdom.

1911, Charles Foster Kent, The Makers and Teachers of Judaism:

Instead, a red-eyed girl in one of Mrs. Warren's own nightgowns came to the door and said shrinkingly: "Lem slept in the barn last night.

1915, Dorothy Canfield, Hillsboro People:

The tiny thing accepted the kiss somewhat shrinkingly, and looked about her, awed by the grandeur of the hall, the large fireplace and blazing logs, the men in armor, or the suits of armor standing up and pretending to be men.

1929, Various, Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5:

In a shrinking manner; as if shrinking away


nebber

You no trudge so--you nebber get tere.

"Yer see, Missis," said Tom, with a sly look, "dey tinks de niggers don't none ob 'em wants dare freedom, so dey nebber totes 'em whar it be."

1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic:

I 'spec's ter haf ter suppo't 'im w'en I fin' 'im, fer he nebber would work 'less'n he had ter.

1899, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and:

Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him.

1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird:

An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring.

1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-At-Arms:

Dey calls it 'Who'd 'a' Thought It,' 'ca'se you nebber would 'a' thought of puttin' a house dere.

I done worked on lizards in de laigs, but I nebber had no 'casion to treat a cricket in de laig.

1918, Alice Hegan Rice, Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories:

Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use."

Pronunciation spelling of never. (imitating an African-American accent)


not by any means

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head...

(idiomatic) Not at all, not in the slightest


groundly

groundly (comparative more groundly, superlative most groundly)

more groundly (comparative)
most groundly (superlative)

From Middle English groundli, groundly, grundliche (“strongly, vehemently, violently; completely, fully, thoroughly; basically, fundamentally”) [and other forms], from ground (see etymology 1) + -li (suffix forming adverbs). The English word is analysable as ground + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).

nb...

groundely, growndly, grundliche, grundlike

Walke groundly, / Talke profoundly, / Drinke roundly, / Sleape ſoundly.

1562, John Heywood, “A Sixt Hundred of Epigrammes. Newly Inuented and Made by John Heywood.”, in The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562). […], Manchester: […] [Charles Simms and Co.] for the Spenser Society, published 1867, →OCLC, paragraph 29, page 205:

If thou wilt ſing on good Friday, thou haſt a commendation of the Pſalme, 93. for then was the houſe of Gods Church builded and groundly founded, though the enemies went about to hinder it: […]

1605, Athanasius, “A Treatise Made by Athanasius the Great, Concerning the Use and Vertue of the Psalmes”, in [anonymous], transl., The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into English Meeter […], London: […] Companie of the Stationers, →OCLC, paragraph 73:

[…] Isope cast his chere to Beryn so groundly, / That atte last there was no man with Isope so pryvy:[…]

[15th century, [anonymous], edited by Frederick J[ames] Furnivall and Walter G. Stone, The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury. […] Part I. […] (Chaucer Society, Supplementary Canterbury Tales; 1), London: For the Chaucer Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1876, →OCLC, page 120, lines 4001–4002:

Sir, when I groundly considered your provident forecast, as well for the conservation of your navy from damage, as the princely zeale that yee bear to preserve your subjects, and their goods, […] it is unto me one of the singular consolations and comforts that ever I had; […]

1521, John Strype, chapter II, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and Its Reformation, under the Reigns of King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First: […], volumes I (Containing the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, […]), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Samuel Bagster, […], published 1816, →OCLC, book I, page 44:

[W]ho ſo euer weyeth mans actes groundly, and of his lyfe the hole proces, he ſhal fynde moſte manifeſtly, and by reaſone ſhall be conſtrayned playnly to confeſſe, that this highe prouydence is not onely declared by ſuch dedes and actes of man, as appere to the worlde to be good and vertuous, but alſo moche more by other, whiche ſeme peſtilent and pernicious, and to all vertue contrarye.

[1536], Thomas Starkey, “To the Reders”, in [An Exhortation to the People, Instructynge Theym to Unitie and Obedience], London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […], →OCLC, page 2:

[A] man growndlie learned all readie, may take moch proffet him ſelfe in vſing, by Epitome, to draw other mens workes for his owne memorie ſake, into ſhorter rowme, […]

a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “[The Second Booke Teachyng the Ready Way to the Latin Tong]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folio 44, verso:

Why we are both but dead, the Duke hates vs, / And thoſe whome Princes doe once groundly hate, / Let them prouide to dye; as ſure as fate, / Preuention is the hart of pollicie.

c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act II, scene v:

And it is to be noted that all the deriuing of Reaſon in the Law of England proceedeth of the firſt principals of the law, or of ſome thing that is deriued of them: and therefore no man may right wiſely iudge ne groundly reaſon in the lawes of England, if he be ignorant in the firſt principles, […]

1604, [Christopher St. Germain], “Of the First Ground of the Law of England”, in [anonymous], transl., The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Diuinity, and a Student in the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip for] Thomas Wight, →OCLC, folio 10, verso:

Remember all yee that by this roune be to paſſ, / And groundly revolue in yowr remembrance, / Both the world is frayle and britle as glaſſ, / The end is death of euery many chance: […]

1631, John Weever, “Ancient Funerall Monuments within the Diocesse of London”, in Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Ilands Adiacent, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Harper; and are to be sold […] by Laurence Sadler […], →OCLC, page 658:

[T]his corporation […] muſt admit none but what are groundly learned and deeply ſtudied in phyſic; but that does not give all that are groundly learned and deeply ſtudied in phyſic, a right to obtrude themſelves into the government of the profeſſion; […]

1798, Christopher Stanger, A Justification of the Right of Every Well Educated Physician […] Residing within the Jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be Admitted a Fellow of that Corporation […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 308:

In benzene hydrogenation and ethane hydrogenolysis the change of activity is distinct in the region of small metal particles, but too slight to discuss its reasons groundly.

1980, Y. I. Yermakov, “Anchored Complexes in Fundamental Catalytic Research”, in T. Seiyama, K. Tanabe, editors, New Horizons in Catalysis: Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Catalysis, Tokyo, 30 June – 4 July, 1980 (Studies in Surface Sciences and Catalysis; 7A), part A, Tokyo: Kodansha; Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, published 1981, →ISBN, pages 68–69:

When the above operational semantics is extended to the first order case, suitable conditions have to be introduced to guarantee that when a negative goal is selected all its free variables are groundly instantiated. This is needed to guarantee the soundness and completeness of the proof procedure.

2010, Laura Giordano, Francesca Toni, “Knowledge Representation and Non-monotonic Reasoning”, in Agostino Dovier, Enrico Pontelli, editors, A 25-year Perspective on Logic Programming: Achievements of the Italian Association for Logic Programming, GULP (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Sublibrary SL2 (Programming and Software Engineering); LNCS 6125), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 89:

In the author's opinion, the essential issue is to decide what has to be groundly predominating in intellectual property regulation: authors' interests, creation, intellectual property or collective interest, consumers' demands, economics?

2013, Frédéric Pollaud-Dulian, “The Dragon and the White Whale: Three Steps Test and Fair Use”, in Toshiko Takenaka, editor, Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Copyright), page 175:

To the very ground or bottom; deeply, profoundly; completely, thoroughly.


antibiotically

an antibiotically active compound

antibiotically treated rats


forbearingly

en-adv

forbearingly (comparative more forbearingly, superlative most forbearingly)

more forbearingly (comparative)
most forbearingly (superlative)

/fɔːbɛːɹɪŋli/

He shrugged forbearingly, and stared at a framed photograph of Monsieur Cordier on the mantelpiece.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 142:

The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity, Orwell wrote.

2007 November 4, Richard Bernstein, “A Modern Buddhist Uprising Strikes a Quieter Chord”, in New York Times:


cum grano salis

A New Latin coinage, derived from the phrase cum grānō salis (which was not used in Classical Latin).

This observation, taken cum grano salis, applies more or less to all who are daily exposed to the temptations of a superfluous table.

1817, “Observations on Ill Health, Arising from Indigestion”, in The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 87, Part 1, p420:

The claim of Dr. Hodge that our standards sustain the view which he advocates, must be taken cum grano salis.

1861 "Imputation," The Danville quarterly review, Volume 3 (September, 1861), Richard H. Collins, p403

Perhaps the ascription of grammatical structure to Classical Chinese sentences must even more often be taken cum grano salis, with a pinch of salt.

1998, Joseph Needham, Christoph Harbsmeier, Science and civilisation in China, Cambridge University Press, page 142:

With a grain of salt
with a grain of salt

(idiomatic) With a grain of salt; with a bit of common sense and skepticism.


yestertide

From yester- + tide (“time, season, period”).

Fair cooling spray, oh, lovely sea! / How maiden coy thy changing mood; / To-night thou'rt sweet with smiles for me, / Scarce yestertide I vainly wooed / Thy fretful features for a smile, / Naught could for me one thought beguile.

1905, Dr. Frederick H. Williams, “Fair Cooling Spray, O Lovely Sea!”, in The Connecticut Magazine, volume 9, number 3, page frontispiece:

And loudly to her lovers called, to leap To arms for her sore sake, that yestertide In her delight delighted, and drank deep Of her lascivious wine-cups, […]

In times past, at a prior time; in the past.


yestertime

And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime.

1920, Yoné Noguchi, Seen & unseen, or, Monologues of a homeless snail:


middlingly

middlingly (comparative more middlingly, superlative most middlingly)

more middlingly (comparative)
most middlingly (superlative)

In a middling manner; averagely, moderately.


prosocially

prosocially (comparative more prosocially, superlative most prosocially)

more prosocially (comparative)
most prosocially (superlative)


ofc

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of of course.

(Internet slang, text messaging, uncommon) Abbreviation of of fucking course.


hereaway

The Bat Black-black-bearaway Coom doon by hereaway.

1673-1915, F.W. Moorman, Yorkshire Dialect Poems:

"It's a purty big raigion hereaway," said Flaggan, during a brief halt to recover breath; "why shouldn't I steer for the Great Zahairy, an' live wi' the Bedooin Arabs?

I daresay, if the truth was known, the old hag's feeding a rebel she's got hidden away in some snug hole hereaway."

1916, John Lang, Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches:


obvs

obvs (comparative more obvs, superlative most obvs)

more obvs (comparative)
most obvs (superlative)

Clipping of obviously + -s (hypocoristic suffix). Compare blates (“blatantly”).

Logan and Zoë had my number, obvs. But for once I wasn't sure that I wanted them to.

Like those blockbusters-with-sophisticated-allegorical-aspirations, District 9's greatest asset (beyond excellent visual effects, obvs) is its fascinating setting

2009 August 14, Benjamin Sutton, Henry Stewart, “What's That in the Sky? Is it a Spaceship? No, it's a Metaphor!”, in The L Magazine, archived from the original on 2011-07-21:

The pictures in this particularly special collection show Ms H in a pink rubber catsuit (obvs) astride a motorbike

2010 December 20, 3am, “Paris never looks happier than when she’s got something between her legs”, in 3am:

2017 Jailbreak, The Emoji Movie, 35min
Ding ding ding ding, you got it! We're in Candy Crush, obvs. I know a shortcut to Just Dance, which is right next to Dropbox where we can get uploaded to the cloud.

(slang, text messaging, Internet slang) Clipping of obviously.

Klaro!

Obviously! Sure! Sweet! (informal interjection)


looard

So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day.

1877, Charles W. Hall, Adrift in the Ice-Fields:

"Keep away, boy--keep to looard.

1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete:

I heard the starboard steward Singing abaft the poop; He lewdly sang to looard And sleep fled from the sloop.


unetymologically

unetymologically (comparative more unetymologically, superlative most unetymologically)

more unetymologically (comparative)
most unetymologically (superlative)

But while women were often not in touch with their own history—what feminists came to call, unetymologically but pertinently, 'herstory'—they were keenly aware of the immediate, oppressive past.

2012, Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminism:


unfitly

unfitly (comparative more unfitly, superlative most unfitly)

more unfitly (comparative)
most unfitly (superlative)

These two sorts of essences, I suppose, may not unfitly be termed, the one the REAL, the other NOMINAL ESSENCE. 16.

1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume II.:

And in reference to this harmonious interplay of all the human faculties and sensibilities, I may not unfitly apply to Shakespeare's workmanship these choice lines from Wordsworth: "Brisk Youth appeared, the Morn of youth, With freaks of graceful folly,-- Life's temperate Noon, her sober Eve, Her Night not melancholy; Past, present, future, all appeared, In harmony united, Like guests that meet, and some from far, By cordial love invited."

1872, H. N. Hudson, Shakespeare= His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I.:

He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday.

1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:

In an unfit manner; unsuitably, inappropriately, not fitly.


ahull

[…] for four dayes and nights, not daring to beare any ſaile, but lay ahull […]

1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:

(nautical) Having the sails furled and the helm lashed alee, as during a storm.


seepingly

seepingly (comparative more seepingly, superlative most seepingly)

more seepingly (comparative)
most seepingly (superlative)

(rare) Gradually encroaching, as if seeping.


ungoodly

ungoodly (comparative more ungoodly, superlative most ungoodly)

more ungoodly (comparative)
most ungoodly (superlative)

From un- + goodly (adjective via Middle English ungoodly). Compare obsolete Dutch ongoedelike.

[…]the remnaunt toke his ſervauntꝭ and intreated them vngoodly and ſlewe thẽ.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:[6], folio xxxj, recto:

And good thinges vngoodlye vſed, are not good, ſayeth an honorable biſhoppe in an erneſter matter then this is: yet we muſte beware that we laye not mennes faultes vpõ the thing which is not worthie, for ſo nothing ſhulde be good.

1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge Conteyned in Tvvo Bookes. To All Gentlemen and Yomen of Englande, Pleasaunte for Theyr Pastyme to Rede, and Profitable for Theyr Use to Folow, Both in War and Peace., London: […] Edouardi VVhytchurch, folio 16, verso:

(obsolete) Badly; in a rough or improper manner.


boldlier

And he spake boldlyer: no, if I shulde dey with the, I woll not deny the.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[31], folio lxvij, recto:


nonsurgically

From nonsurgical + -ly or non- + surgically.

The soft tissue diode laser used in the LAPOR protocol, biostimulates the healing response of the periodontium nonsurgically, and biostimulates the tissue regeneration of the periodontium, nonsurgically, and prevents long junctional epithelium from migrating downwards into the sulcus (a biomechanical aspect of tissue healing), thereby preserving the tissue height.

2013, Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition:

In a nonsurgical manner; not by means of surgery.


qualmishly

qualmishly (comparative more qualmishly, superlative most qualmishly)

more qualmishly (comparative)
most qualmishly (superlative)


edaciously

edaciously (comparative more edaciously, superlative most edaciously)

more edaciously (comparative)
most edaciously (superlative)


assuringly

assuringly (comparative more assuringly, superlative most assuringly)

more assuringly (comparative)
most assuringly (superlative)

"Oh, yes!" said the lawyer, assuringly, "oh, yes! there's no mistake about that, there isn't the shadow of a doubt about that.

"He won't hurt you, Miss Lloyd," he called, assuringly.

1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, “‘Found Out’”, in The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 168:

He laid his hard, rough hand assuringly on the shoulder of the frightened child and sought to soothe her fears.

1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story:


asthmatically

asthmatically (comparative more asthmatically, superlative most asthmatically)

more asthmatically (comparative)
most asthmatically (superlative)

He came in and stood breathing asthmatically.

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:

The Chinese Puffhard excelled herself, and though she choked asthmatically did not really stop once until we were half way up the drive, when I abandoned her to the gardeners, who later on harnessed the donkey to her and pulled her into the motor-house.

He was not an old man, though he affected to be so--walking very slowly and deliberately, coughing asthmatically, glimmering with his eyes, and mumbling like a witch.

1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile:


inspiritingly

inspiritingly (comparative more inspiritingly, superlative most inspiritingly)

more inspiritingly (comparative)
most inspiritingly (superlative)

The old soldier struck him on the shoulder inspiritingly, his weather-beaten face very grave.

1915, Dorothy Canfield, Hillsboro People:

The birds sung less inspiritingly than usual amid the boughs, which remained as motionless as death.

1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne:

Then the absurdity of her--Miss Heth's--feeling constraint before this Mr.--no, Dr.--Vivian, this friend of the Cooneys and malicious attacker of the Cooneys' relatives' characters, rushed over the girl inspiritingly.

1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes:


nonnaturally

nonnaturally occurring chemical elements


nonorganically

nonorganically (comparative more nonorganically, superlative most nonorganically)

more nonorganically (comparative)
most nonorganically (superlative)


flashingly

flashingly (comparative more flashingly, superlative most flashingly)

more flashingly (comparative)
most flashingly (superlative)

flashingly indignant eyes


ziggety

ziggety (comparative more ziggety, superlative most ziggety)

more ziggety (comparative)
most ziggety (superlative)

Rabbit come scooting out of the bresh, he's going to do two things. He's going to head di-rectly for the nearest cover, only ziggety-zag.


one step ahead

Chalaza: Okay, Thursday night, it's mailroom Monday, we just got our new shipment.
Xavier (Vernon Chatman): What do you do if the cops come knocking?
Chalaza: We toilet-flush the drugs.
Xavier: Let's stay one step ahead of the cops, flush them now.
Chalaza: I like, one step ahead of the policia.

2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 2:

Wilshere had another shot saved low down by Hart as City struggled to keep up with Arsenal's flowing forward play, the home team always appeared to be one step ahead as City boss Roberto Mancini showed his annoyance by remonstrating with his players on the touchline.

2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:

(idiomatic) maintaining a slight advantage; continuing to lead


seldomest

They who most passionately pursue Pleasure, seldomest arrive at it.

1891, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:

For the finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe, that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

1908, John Ruskin, Selections From the Works of John Ruskin:

I find it is the one I most value here in the household and seldomest get.

1835, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete:


seldomer

"He looks as if he had been so much oftener vexed, and so much seldomer pleased than you do," continued I, mentally comparing the smooth though weather-beaten benignity of the straight-cut features beside me, with the austere and frown-puckered gravity of my father's.

One seldomer sees in southern France a sight frequent in Italy and many other parts of Europe,--that of a woman toilsomely dragging a hand-cart or shouldering a burden while her spouse walks idly by and smokes a thankful pipe.

1890, Edwin Asa Dix, A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees:

He is like our painting gentlewomen, seldom in his own face, seldomer in his clothes; and he pleases, the better he counterfeits, except only when he is disguised with straw for gold lace.

1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:

(archaic) comparative form of seldom: more seldom


keerfully

keerfully (comparative more keerfully, superlative most keerfully)

more keerfully (comparative)
most keerfully (superlative)

"Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel," said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.

1875, Bret Harte, “Brown of Calaveras”, in The Tales of the Argonauts:

'The loryer yere, hes spread hisself on Mulock's motive fur doin' this thing; 'sistin' thet fur seventeen yar he's ben a nussin' suthin--nussin' it as keerfully as a mother nusses her chil'ren.

1863, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863:


plenteously

plenteously (comparative more plenteously, superlative most plenteously)

more plenteously (comparative)
most plenteously (superlative)

Thys Lepidium that Pliny & Paul [of Aegina] deſcribe, groweth plentuouſly about the water ſyde that rynneth thorow Morpeth in Northumberland, in ſuche places as great heapes of ſtones are caſten together wyth the myght of a great ſpat or flood.

1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Lepidium or Dittani”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 35, recto:

What was the effect of his widow's dedication to Cecil, is not known: it may be hoped that Ascham's works obtained for his family, after his decease, that support which he did not, in his life, very plenteously procure them.

1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6:

The old woman ate greedily, and drank still more plenteously of the sweet wine.

1831, Ludwig Tieck, The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano:

My liege Lord, my full trust is that ye will have consideration, though that my person be of no value, your high goodness, where God hath set you in so high estate to every liege man that to you longeth plenteously to give grace, that you like to accept this mine simple request for the love of Our Lady and the blissful Holy Ghost, to whom I pray that they might your heart induce to all pity and grace for their high goodness.

1838, J. Endell Tyler, Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2:

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

(archaic) copiously; plentifully; in abundance.


stainlessly

stainlessly (comparative more stainlessly, superlative most stainlessly)

more stainlessly (comparative)
most stainlessly (superlative)


morphometrically

By means of, or in terms of, morphometrics.


no way, José

On the other hand, almost any girl, specifically one with a full head of hair, would help you stave off this creeping sense of mortality. You remember the Bolivian Marching Powder and realize you’re not down yet. No way, José. First you have to get rid of this bald girl.

1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 4:


afterhind

afterhind (comparative more afterhind, superlative most afterhind)

more afterhind (comparative)
most afterhind (superlative)


cybersexually

Although little data is available on the ISST, it has been administered to over 900 self-identified cybersexually concerned individuals.

2002, Patrick Carnes, Kenneth M. Adams, Clinical management of sex addiction, page 249:

Often, there is a deterioration in the primary relationship: The cybersexually involved partner may become more withdrawn and sexually avoidant and display less interest in his wife and children.

2002, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: a guidebook for clinicians, page 25:

Those who owned up to being experienced, cybersexually, claimed that individuals were vulnerable in both domains, and that the degree of vulnerability was related to the amount of individual engagement with the other...

2002, Lelia Green, Communication, technology and society, page 188:


uncommercially

uncommercially (comparative more uncommercially, superlative most uncommercially)

more uncommercially (comparative)
most uncommercially (superlative)


unnamably

unnamably (comparative more unnamably, superlative most unnamably)

more unnamably (comparative)
most unnamably (superlative)


unnameably

unnameably (comparative more unnameably, superlative most unnameably)

more unnameably (comparative)
most unnameably (superlative)


nameably

nameably (comparative more nameably, superlative most nameably)

more nameably (comparative)
most nameably (superlative)

So far as the actual basis for this qualitative specificity is concerned, the odor really becomes specific but not nameably so, in terms of what one might call texture.

1930, American Psychological Association, Journal of experimental psychology:


slipshodly

slipshodly (comparative more slipshodly, superlative most slipshodly)

more slipshodly (comparative)
most slipshodly (superlative)


post-ovulation

Surgeries could be scheduled on day 10 or 14 post ovulation of a regular menstrual cycle.

2006, Michael J Soares et al., Placenta and Trophoblast: Methods and Protocols, page 108:


nonphenomenologically

In a manner that is not phenomenological.


onest

onest upon a time


gnawingly

gnawingly (comparative more gnawingly, superlative most gnawingly)

more gnawingly (comparative)
most gnawingly (superlative)

Somehow seeing that small streak of blood made the way she felt inside seem less out of control, less desperate, less awkwardly, gnawingly painful.


gnashingly

gnashingly (comparative more gnashingly, superlative most gnashingly)

more gnashingly (comparative)
most gnashingly (superlative)

She watched the horse chew gnashingly, his lower jaw slipping sideways. She saw big yellow teeth, and white froth, mixed with apple bits, bubbling out.

2004, Mike Barnes, Contrary angel, page 132:


paraxially

paraxially (comparative more paraxially, superlative most paraxially)

more paraxially (comparative)
most paraxially (superlative)


disproportionably

disproportionably (comparative more disproportionably, superlative most disproportionably)

more disproportionably (comparative)
most disproportionably (superlative)


weightwise

Doctor: Is that up a little bit for you, weightwise?

2007 June 26, Gina Kolata, “Study Says Chatty Doctors Forget Patients”, in New York Times:


jurisprudentially

Justice Scalia was clearly taking aim at the chief justice, openly mocking his much publicized goal of lowering the court’s temperature through unanimous and jurisprudentially modest decisions.

2007 June 28, Linda Greenhouse, “Even in Agreement, Scalia Puts Roberts to Lash”, in New York Times:


inadvisedly

inadvisedly (comparative more inadvisedly, superlative most inadvisedly)

more inadvisedly (comparative)
most inadvisedly (superlative)

From inadvised + -ly or in- + advised + -ly.

Becker (North) raised to two hearts, when some would inadvisedly jump pre-emptively to three hearts because they had four-card support.

2007 June 28, Phillip Alder, “From a Risk of Down Two, a Big Reward”, in New York Times:


behappen

From Middle English behappenen, equivalent to be- + happen, analogous to befall.

Behappen it ul rain.

1841, Charles Henry Hartshorne, Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical,' Military, and Other Early Remains in Shropshire and the North Welsh Borders; with Observations Upon the Names of Places, and a Glossary of Words Used in the County of Salop:


divisim

From the Latin dīvīsim (“separately”, adverb).

In Att[ic Greek], when σὲ αὐτόν, ἐμοὶ αὐτῷ, etc., are read divisim, they are emphatic, not reflexive.

1940, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, s.v. “αὐτός”, sense A.I.10.b


bipedally

In the manner of an animal that walks on two feet, two legs.

zweifüßig

in the manner of an animal that walks on two feet


every inch

Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.

2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC:

He knows every inch of the road.

The latter two required a long track walk from Whitechapel (after services ended and power was switched off), alongside TfL staff who know every inch of this historic stretch of line.

2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:


bendways

bendways (comparative more bendways, superlative most bendways)

more bendways (comparative)
most bendways (superlative)


conscionably

conscionably (comparative more conscionably, superlative most conscionably)

more conscionably (comparative)
most conscionably (superlative)


datedly

datedly (comparative more datedly, superlative most datedly)

more datedly (comparative)
most datedly (superlative)

The comedy Bird in the Hand (1927) plays neatly and amusingly, if tritely and datedly, with the stubborn class-consciousness and inverted pride of a country landlord whose daughter falls in love with the local squire's son.

1983, Harry Blamires, A guide to twentieth century literature in English, page 71:


denyingly

denyingly (comparative more denyingly, superlative most denyingly)

more denyingly (comparative)
most denyingly (superlative)

He turned back, took her hand, shook his head denyingly […]

1839, The Corsair: A gazette of literature, art, dramatic criticism, fashion and novelty:


slowly but surely

From then on the visitors, inspired by the composure provided by Ryan Giggs after he came on for Darron Gibson at half-time, managed to unscramble their senses to slowly but surely overpower gallant Blackpool.

2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC:


obsoletely

obsoletely (comparative more obsoletely, superlative most obsoletely)

more obsoletely (comparative)
most obsoletely (superlative)

(biology) Imperfectly or indistinctly developed.


bloody well

I dragged myself upright and glared after the departing truck. ‘If I want to blow myself up, then I bloody well will,’ I yelled hysterically.

1976, Brian Callison, Trapp’s War, Saturday Review Press, →ISBN, page 75:


unconfinably

unconfinably (comparative more unconfinably, superlative most unconfinably)

more unconfinably (comparative)
most unconfinably (superlative)


unconfinedly

unconfinedly (comparative more unconfinedly, superlative most unconfinedly)

more unconfinedly (comparative)
most unconfinedly (superlative)


here below

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow / praise Him, all creatures here below / praise Him above, ye heavenly host / praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

1674, Thomas Ken (lyrics and music), “Doxology”:

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow / The sun forbear to shine / but God who called me here below / will be forever mine.

1779, John Newton (lyrics and music), “Amazing Grace”:

And if the material of the firmament resembled that of bodies here below, a theory of motion built on experience with objects within our reach might apply also to the celestial regions.

2010, John L. Heilbron, Galileo, Oxford University Press, page 120:

(Christianity) In this world; in our mortal time on the earth.


blunderously

blunderously (comparative more blunderously, superlative most blunderously)

more blunderously (comparative)
most blunderously (superlative)


panchromatically

panchromatically (comparative more panchromatically, superlative most panchromatically)

more panchromatically (comparative)
most panchromatically (superlative)

sensitively at all wavelengths (or to all colours)


all kinds of

After shooting Joan to death, he'd gone home and killed himself, leaving behind a wife and young daughter. And a written confession that sounded all kinds of crazy.

2008, Sean Chercover, chapter 1, in Trigger City, →ISBN:

I like all kinds of food.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, kinds, of.


damn well

You know damn well that you should have been home by midnight.


orf

'Yes – you clear orf!' said Mr Goon majestically, feeling that he really had got the better of those interfering kids this time.

1945, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Secret Room:


lashingly

lashingly (comparative more lashingly, superlative most lashingly)

more lashingly (comparative)
most lashingly (superlative)

Classic writers are prone to satirize women lashingly, but Jonson's satire is different.

1910, Charles Shirley Potts, Crime and the treatment of the criminal: Issue 8:


unrhetorically

unrhetorically (comparative more unrhetorically, superlative most unrhetorically)

more unrhetorically (comparative)
most unrhetorically (superlative)


memoriter

/məˈmɒɹɪtə(ɹ)/

1818, John Henry Capper, 10 Papers Relating to the Convict Establishment, House of Commons Papers, Volume 16, Great Britain House of Commons, unnumbered page,
The Holy Scriptures are daily read by them in general; and five-and-twenty chapters of them are, on an average, recited memoriter in the chapel every week.

Dr. C. W. Hodoe presides at the weekly speaking of the Junior and Middle Classes, each member of which is, in his turn, expected to deliver original discourses, memoriter.

1832, Princeton Theological Seminary, Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Theological Seminary, New Jersey: Princeton, page 16:

There are certain subjects of study, which must, of course, be learned memoriter.

1837, University of the State of New York, Annual Report of the Regents, volumes 50-51, page 90:


'deed

"'Deed they doesn't. They fills their bellies wi' ther 'oney," bleated Granny blastingly.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:


head first

head first (comparative more head first, superlative most head first)

more head first (comparative)
most head first (superlative)

I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 48:

He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.

1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 25:


askant

askant (comparative more askant, superlative most askant)

more askant (comparative)
most askant (superlative)

Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.

And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.

1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

He folded the bill lovingly and tucked it away; but he flipped the coin from his thumb, spinning in the sun, caught it as it fell, and glanced askant at old Pete.

1917, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Copper Streak Trail:

(now rare) Aslant; to one side, askance.


disregardless

Whatever a man really is, he is so esteemed and named by Goethe in Faust, quite disregardless of any conventional titles or obloquys he bears.

1870, William Kyle, An exposition of the symbolic terms of the second part of ..., page 17:

Typically, this reduction is based on a polynomial number of non-deterministic steps. Hence the combination algorithm introduces its own NP-complexity, disregardless of the complexity of the algorithms that are available for the components.

1996, Klaus U. Schulz, Combining Unification and Disunification Algorithms: Tractable and Intractable Instances (unpublished report):

I wouldn't call the term "wasichu" racist at all, for example. It doesn't refer to race, but to a behaviour that could be observed disregardless of race.

1998 March 17, <rojas.ro...@swipnet.se>, “Takes a thief”, in alt.native (Usenet), message-ID <1>:


panegyrically

panegyrically (comparative more panegyrically, superlative most panegyrically)

more panegyrically (comparative)
most panegyrically (superlative)

There are turns of style, by means of which any qualities can be described panegyrically.

1813 January, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review:

Grandeur of sentiment calls for grandeur of language, and if Fielding occasionally betrays himself so far as to smile when he is writing panegyrically, he certainly does not intend his meaning to be upset by the operation of simple irony.

1968, Andrew H. Wright, Henry Fielding, mask and feast - Page 184:

History, which Lomonosov called "the art by which Greek and Roman writers gave glory to their heroes," often functioned teleologically or panegyrically and gave many mid-century Russians an opportunity to proclaim the "glory" of their empire.

1991, Stephen Lessing Baehr, The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture:

In a very eloquent and eulogistic manner; with lavish praise, in a very complimentary way.


unmenacingly

unmenacingly (comparative more unmenacingly, superlative most unmenacingly)

more unmenacingly (comparative)
most unmenacingly (superlative)


implosively

implosively (comparative more implosively, superlative most implosively)

more implosively (comparative)
most implosively (superlative)

In an implosive manner; by means of implosion.


unreconcilably

unreconcilably (comparative more unreconcilably, superlative most unreconcilably)

more unreconcilably (comparative)
most unreconcilably (superlative)


warmheartedly

warmheartedly (comparative more warmheartedly, superlative most warmheartedly)

more warmheartedly (comparative)
most warmheartedly (superlative)


nonbeneficially

In a nonbeneficial manner; without benefit.


historiographically

historiographically (comparative more historiographically, superlative most historiographically)

more historiographically (comparative)
most historiographically (superlative)

In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.


supersymmetrically

In a supersymmetric manner; with regard to supersymmetry.


otherly

otherly (comparative more otherly, superlative most otherly)

more otherly (comparative)
most otherly (superlative)

From Middle English otherliche, from Old English ōþerlīċe (“otherwise, differently”), equivalent to other + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon ōþarlīk, Old High German andarlīh, Icelandic annarligur, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍉 (anþarleikō, “otherwise”).


hydrophobically

en-adv

hydrophobically (comparative more hydrophobically, superlative most hydrophobically)

more hydrophobically (comparative)
most hydrophobically (superlative)


anguishly

anguishly (comparative more anguishly, superlative most anguishly)

more anguishly (comparative)
most anguishly (superlative)

And so longe dured there the batayle that Sir Bors sate up all angwyshlye and behylde Sir Collegrevaunce, the good knyght, that fought with his brother for his quarell.

1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:


per myriad

It is found that in the two epidemics, that of 1849 and 1853-4, the mean mortality by cholera was at the rate of 43 per myriad in the three most open districts, and 28 in the three most dense districts.

1855, The Medical Times and Gazette, New Series, volume 11, page 350:


actially

Back-spelling of the reduced pronunciation of actually.

(nonstandard) Eye dialect spelling of actually.


supervacaneously

supervacaneously (comparative more supervacaneously, superlative most supervacaneously)

more supervacaneously (comparative)
most supervacaneously (superlative)

1879, William T, Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume XIII,
To Kant, the multiple connected with the house is quite as objective as the multiple connected with the ship ; but that he attributes to the category of quantity, and not, laboriously and supervacaneously, like Schopenhauer, to the various causal relations of the eye in movement.

In a way that is supervacaneous; needlessly; redundantly; superfluously.


wiseliest

superlative form of wisely (adverb): most wisely


not a little

He is not a little saddened at the departure of the Dodgers. He's thinking of moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.


dim.

head

dim. (comparative dim. molto, no superlative)

(musical notation) Abbreviation of diminuendo.


aporetically

en-adv

aporetically (comparative more aporetically, superlative most aporetically)

more aporetically (comparative)
most aporetically (superlative)


equiprimordially

Heidegger's Being is the groundless play of Being. Far from being a plenum of intelligibility, it is equiprimordially unintelligible.

1986, [1978], John D. Caputo, The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought, page 247:

(manner) In a way that is equiprimordial.


intirely

[O]bſerving [...] abundance of Matter floating in the Urine like Bran, with a great Number of Recrements like Cuttings of Hair, ſome above an Inch long, which Subſtances were found in all the Water that I made in above Twelve Months; for which I could get no Remedy: I was adviſed to drink Water, which in about half a Year did intirely free me from thoſe Symptoms, [...]

1723, John Smith, The Curiosities of Common Water: Or The Advantages thereof in Preventing and Curing Many Distempers. […], 5th edition, London: […] John and Barham Clark, […], →OCLC, pages 9–10:


unrelatedly

unrelatedly (comparative more unrelatedly, superlative most unrelatedly)

more unrelatedly (comparative)
most unrelatedly (superlative)

1976, John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (editor), Sidney Hook (introduction), The Middle Works, 1899-1924, Volume 2: 1902-1903, page 37,
Someone must come to the rescue of the threatened ideals; and so they are vehemently reasserted as inherently and unrelatedly valid.

[…] fourth, the Universe events occurring nonsimultaneously, remotely, and unrelatedly subsequent to the system events; […].

1982, Richard Buckminster Fuller, E. J. Applewhite, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, page 95:

2005, Alan M. Rugman, Alain Verbeke, Analysis of Multinational Strategic Management: The Selected Scientific Papers of Alan M. Rugman and Alain Verbeke, page 136,
For example, unrelatedly diversified MNEs are viewed as requiring only a low information processing capability of corporate level management,
[Note: MNE = Multinational Enterprise]

(manner, degree) In an unrelated manner.

Not unrelatedly, Barbara B. Varenhorst has described how game theory and simulations can be a pragmatic part of effective group counseling practice.

1969, John Vriend, Wayne W. Dyer, Counseling Effectively in Groups, page 8:

2005, Richard H. Brodhead, The American Literary Field 1860-1890, in Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell, The Cambridge History of American Literature: Prose Writing, 1860-1920, page 35,
Not unrelatedly, it also presumes a higher degree of aesthetic cultivation.

Unrelatedly, but continuing our Pythagorean bean theme, Empedocles' fragment 141 reads, 'Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands off beans!

2008, Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers, page 17:

(speech-act) Used to indicate that the accompanying statement is unrelated (unconnected) to a preceding statement or occurrence.


ever and anon

Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 12:

I could see Salemina at the far end of the table radiant with success, the W. S. at her side bending ever and anon to catch the (artificial) pearls of thought that dropped from her lips.

1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 6, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

Ever and anon the guard's face could be dimly seen at his window, more like a ghost than a man; [...].

1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 134:

Pippin never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions

1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1:

(literary) Synonym of occasionally, now and then.


in dern

in dern (comparative more in dern, superlative most in dern)

more in dern (comparative)
most in dern (superlative)

Where lies in dern auld Rhymer's race.

1899, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, A Little Book of Scottish Verse:


silentiously

silentiously (comparative more silentiously, superlative most silentiously)

more silentiously (comparative)
most silentiously (superlative)

In a manner marked by silence or laconism


just so

If you don't turn the knob just so, the door won't open.

Each towel was folded just so. If it wasn't perfect, they did it again.

2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 17:

Your dog is just so friendly.

I like any flower, just so as it's real.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see just, so


epizootically

A number of algal species live epizootically on the branchiopod crustaceans found in temporary ponds.

2006, D. Dudley Williams, The Biology of Temporary Waters, page 45:

In the manner of an epizootic; in a way that affects a particular species or range of species.

Epizootically, it is known that natural foci of rabies exist in wild carnivores, and jackals, wolves and mongooses play a significant role in the transmission cycle of the disease.

2001, Betty Dodet, Rabies Control in Asia, page 238:

Regarding epizootics; in the context of the study of epizootics.


kerslap

kerslap (comparative more kerslap, superlative most kerslap)

more kerslap (comparative)
most kerslap (superlative)

With a sudden slap or loud slapping blow.


kerslop

kerslop (comparative more kerslop, superlative most kerslop)

more kerslop (comparative)
most kerslop (superlative)


fore and aft

(nautical) From the bow of a ship to the stern; lengthwise.


awayward

awayward (comparative more awayward, superlative most awayward)

more awayward (comparative)
most awayward (superlative)

And therewithall he groned pyteuously and rode a grete walop awaywarde from them untyll he cam undir a woodys evyse.

1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:


fully well

(proscribed) Alternative form of full well


full well

From Middle English fol wel, fulwel, from Old English ful wel, equivalent to full + well. Compare Old Norse all-vel (“full well”).

He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.

15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5, lines 120–121:

He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.

Besides, there is always a tendency—indeed an interest—to take on what one knows full well.

1829, Charles Burroughs, Memoirs and select papers of Horace B. Morse, Miller and Brewster, pages 83–87:

2006. Nadia Yassine. Full Sails Ahead. Justice and Spirituality Publications. page 2.
He knows full well that I don't like that club.


flabbergastingly

flabbergastingly (comparative more flabbergastingly, superlative most flabbergastingly)

more flabbergastingly (comparative)
most flabbergastingly (superlative)

It was a good date but the food at the restaurant was so flabbergastingly excellent I could barely think of anything else to talk about.

He had said he would clean his room a thousand times before, but this time he actually did it, and flabbergastingly well too.

1922, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken. The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, Volume 69. Ess Ess Pub. Co. page 49.
(There) must be sympathy in the back parlor if it is to get its message across, and that this flabbergastingly important message... is as follows:...

The critical wonderment over the at times curious unevenness of Monckton Hoffe's dramatic writing, over the startlingly good suddenly crossed with the flabbergastingly bad, and vice versa...

1971, George Jean Nathan, Materia critica, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, page 115:

As I write, the flabbergastingly fecund David Crystal has just published another book in the tradition, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left.

2009, Jason McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, Penguin:

Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly


nymphomaniacally

nymphomaniacally (comparative more nymphomaniacally, superlative most nymphomaniacally)

more nymphomaniacally (comparative)
most nymphomaniacally (superlative)

like a nymphomaniac, in a nymphomaniac manner


paleomagnetically

paleomagnetically (comparative more paleomagnetically, superlative most paleomagnetically)

more paleomagnetically (comparative)
most paleomagnetically (superlative)

The paleomagnetically determined paleolatitude of the Rosemary paleosol during the middle Devonian was about 40° ± 14° (18 ).

1997 April 25, Gregory J. Retallack, “Early Forest Soils and Their Role in Devonian Global Change”, in Science, volume 276, number 5312, →DOI, pages 583–585:

It is based on the following observations: (i) different regions in the oceans subside like BL until different flattening ages, some as old as 170 Ma (49 ); (ii) depth and heat flow in some old basins behave like BL but with an effective thermal age t e, which is younger than the (paleomagnetically determined) actual age t m (50 ); (iii) effective elastic lithosphere thicknesses under some intraplate volcanoes suggest that hot spots produce a "thermal rejuvenation," reducing t e (51 ); (iv) the depths and subsidence of hot spot swells suggest that many swells reduce t e to the same value (52 ); and (v) on old lithosphere, it is hard to find areas that have not been near hot spots (53 ).

1997 September 26, Walter H. F. Smith, David T. Sandwell, “Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings”, in Science, volume 277, number 5334, →DOI, pages 1956–1962:

Numerical predictions based on realistic viscoelastic Earth models and paleomagnetically constrained polar motion yield global-scale, differential sea-level trends that can be as large as ~200 meters.

1998 January 23, Jon E. Mound, Jerry X. Mitrovica, “True Polar Wander as a Mechanism for Second-Order Sea-Level Variations”, in Science, volume 279, number 5350, →DOI, pages 534–537:

Estimates of this time interval are based on the assumption that the K-T clay was deposited at the same rate as the clay fraction in the surrounding paleomagnetically dated limestones [e.g., (8 )]; this assumption is questionable during such a turbulent period.

2001 March 9, S. Mukhopadhyay et al., “A Short Duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Helium-3”, in Science, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, pages 1952–1955:

(geology) In a way that has to do with paleomagnetism


superhelically

superhelically (comparative more superhelically, superlative most superhelically)

more superhelically (comparative)
most superhelically (superlative)


far from

Don't leave now: our task is far from complete!

My stay at the hotel was far from satisfactory.

The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.
Therefore in pollicie I thinke it good
To hide it cloſe: a goodly Strategem,
And far from any man that is a foole.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

Not characteristic of, not likely to be done or thought by.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, from.


dal segno

Borrowed from Italian dal segno (literally “from the sign”).


spakely

en-adv

spakely (comparative more spakely, superlative most spakely)

more spakely (comparative)
most spakely (superlative)

From Middle English spakely, spakly, equivalent to spake + -ly.


vp

With ſence whereof whileſt ſo thy ſoftened ſpirit
Is inly toucht, and humbled with meeke zeale,
Through meditation of his endleſſe merit,
Lift vp thy mind to th’ author of thy weale,
And to his ſoueraine mercie doe appeale;
Learne him to loue, that loued thee ſo deare,

16th century, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne Of Heavenly Love, section 260

And in thy breſt his bleſſed image beare.


other times

the more I had laden my selfe with coine, the more I had also burdened my selfe with feare: sometimes of my wayes-safetie, othertimes of their trust that had the charge of my sumpters and baggage[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

‘Sometimes you have a good laugh, other times they might be a bit drunk and it's hard to get any sense out of them.’

2011 March 26, Nicky Woolf, The Guardian:


hungerly

hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)

more hungerly (comparative)
most hungerly (superlative)

Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


abread

From Middle English abrede or on brede, from a- or on (“on”) + brede (“breadth”).

(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Abroad.


imell

imell (comparative more imell, superlative most imell)

more imell (comparative)
most imell (superlative)

From Middle English imell, emell, emelle, omelle, from Old Norse á milli, í milli (“in the middle”), from Old Norse milli, miðli (“middle”), from Proto-Germanic *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). More at middle.

der

(dialectal or obsolete) In the middle; between.


ylike

So both together, ylike felly bent, / Like fiercely met.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


askile

en-adv

askile (comparative more askile, superlative most askile)

more askile (comparative)
most askile (superlative)

From a- + *skile, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skjalgr (“askew, wry, oblique, squinting”), from Proto-Germanic *skelhaz (“squint-eyed, sloping”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to lean, bend; joint”). Cognate with Icelandic skjálgur (“squinting”), German scheel (“cross-eyed, leering, envious, jealous”), Dutch scheel (“cross-eyed, squinting”), Old English sceolh (“squinting, oblique, awry”).


eachwhere

The mountains eachwhere shook, the rivers turned their streams.


œconomically

en-adv

œconomically (comparative more œconomically, superlative most œconomically)

more œconomically (comparative)
most œconomically (superlative)

He uſed ſtill to ride about the country on one of theſe mares—but then he rode her very œconomically ; on the ſoft turf adjoining the road, without putting himſelf to the expence of ſhoes—as he obſerved, “ The turf was ſo pleaſant to a horſe’s foot !” And when any gentleman called to pay him a viſit, and the boy who attended in the ſtables was profuſe enough to put a little hay before his horſe, old Elwes would ſlily ſteal back into the ſtable, and take the hay very carefully away.

1790, Account of the late Mr. Ledyard ; from “ Proceedings of the Society for promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa, from The Annual Register, Volume XXXIV, Characters, page 23


œcologically

œcologically (comparative more œcologically, superlative most œcologically)

more œcologically (comparative)
most œcologically (superlative)

Œcologically, P. reticulata almost exactly replaces P. brevisetosa beyond the southern limit of the latter, and the superficial resemblance of the two species is very strong.

1897, Herbert P. Johnson, “A Preliminary account of the Marine Annelids of the Pacific Coast, with Descriptions of New Species”, in The Shipley collection of scientific papers, page 171:


feelefold

feelefold (comparative more feelefold, superlative most feelefold)

more feelefold (comparative)
most feelefold (superlative)

From Middle English felefold, felefolde (“multiple, many; varied, diverse”), from Old English felafeald, felefeald (“manifold, many times over”), equivalent to fele (“many”) + -fold. Compare Dutch veelvoud, German Vielfalt.

(obsolete) Many times over; in many ways; in various ways or places.


prejudicially

prejudicially (comparative more prejudicially, superlative most prejudicially)

more prejudicially (comparative)
most prejudicially (superlative)

In this case, however, the parent's health will chiefly suffer, if she persevere in nursing; this, however, will again act prejudicially to the child.

1840, Thomas Bull, M.D., The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease.:

"But surely that will prejudicially affect the rumor you were going to spread, sire?"

1628, Alexandre Dumas, Père, Ten Years Later:


a-building

From a- (“in, on”) + building (“the act or process of building”).

prefix

This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall.

1890, William Morris, chapter XXVI, in News from Nowhere:

"Of these nineteen ships a-building no more than two can take the water before a month be past, and but seven more ere six months' time, push we never so mightily the work."

1922, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, page 141:

Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.


calligraphically

en-adv

calligraphically (comparative more calligraphically, superlative most calligraphically)

more calligraphically (comparative)
most calligraphically (superlative)

in a calligraphic manner: using calligraphy


refinedly

refinedly (comparative more refinedly, superlative most refinedly)

more refinedly (comparative)
most refinedly (superlative)

The sciences treat of things too refinedly, after an artificial, very different from the common and natural, way.

1877, Charles Cotton, The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 15:

The highest art and the lowest are indeed here at one in demanding moral poise, if we may call it so, that however crudely in the low, and however artistically and refinedly in the high, vice should not only not be set forth as absolutely triumphing, nor virtue as being absolutely, outwardly, and inwardly defeated.

1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson:

It is evident that this unhappy marriage was decisive in determining De Sade's career; he at once threw himself recklessly into every form of dissipation, spending his health and his substance sometimes among refinedly debauched nobles and sometimes among coarsely debauched lackeys.

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6):


reely

But mind you, there ain't anything ever reely lost; everything that people can't understand and don't see the reason of does good if you only hold on and give it a fair shake; Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.

1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It, Part 6.:

"'Shame,' ses most of 'em; an' I reely b'leeve they'd worked theirselves up to that pitch they'd ha' felt disappointed if the skipper had been saved.

"Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered--one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jest gritted into you for the consolation of Israel.

1903, Harry Leon Wilson, The Lions of the Lord:

And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one.

1905, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete:

If he ever reely hit you with that fist of his'n, it ud sink in up to the elbow.

Both your son and your daughter-in-law, ma'am, are of that uncommon sort; they are, now, reely, ma'am."

1911, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh:

Private Flannigan looked over his shoulder at him, "Mong capitaine," he said, "you ought, you reely ought, to ring up your telephone; turn the handle round an' say something." "

1916, Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), Action Front:

"She ain't seen him for more'n a month reely, but I reckon it does seem 'most a year to her."

1918, Francis Barton Fox, The Heart of Arethusa:


on and on

The interview dragged on and on, long after I was sure I wouldn't get the job.


one way or another

One way or another, I'm going to find ya / I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya

1978, Debbie Harry, Nigel Harrison (lyrics and music), “One Way or Another”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:


one after another

Dates back at least to Old English ān æfter ōþrum, of the same meaning.

(idiomatic) Individually, in a particular sequence or chronology.

Once discipline broke down, problems came one after another.


might and main

A reduplication of two words meaning strength.

[…] I found myself hanging on the skysail-yard, holding on might and main to the mast; and curling my feet round the rigging, as if they were another pair of hands.

1849, Herman Melville, “Chapter XVI”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

c.1890s, Giovanni Boccaccio, James McMullen Rigg (translator), The Decameron, Novel 1, 6,
[…] he strove might and main to pass himself off as a holy man […]

When the sunlight threads the pine-gloom he is fighting might and main / To clinch the rivets of an Empire down.

1907, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Younger Son”, in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 61:

With all one's strength; as hard as one can.


undelayedly

undelayedly (comparative more undelayedly, superlative most undelayedly)

more undelayedly (comparative)
most undelayedly (superlative)

And therewith advancing himselfe to march before the people, all the assembly, and even his accuser himselfe did undelayedly follow him towards the Temple.


herostratically

It is precisely the same mode of thought, as lay behind Germany's herostratically notorious act of war when she marched through Belgium for the reason, as she said, that France had planned to march through it if she did not.

1921, Jacob Wittmer Hartmann, Soviet Russia Pictorial, volume 3, page 67:

(degree) To an extent that attains infamy; infamously.

This is just another piece of common sense about philosophy, the one to which the pragmatists herostratically sacrificed everything else.

1964, Gustav Bergmann, Logic and Reality, page 21:

(manner) In a manner using any means necessary.


hab or nab

Probably representing a present subjunctive and a negative form of have. Compare Old English hæbbe, næbbe, and the negative particle ne.

But hab or nab [translating à toutes adventures] we can never take too much advantage of it.

(obsolete) Win or lose; however things turn out, in any case.