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beneshiply

beneshiply adverb: excellently.

Adverb

beneshiply (comparative more beneshiply, superlative most beneshiply)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) Excellently
    • The doxy dell can cut bene whids, And wap well for a win, And prig and cloy so beneshiply, All the dewse-a-vill within., x, "O per se O", "The Canting Song", quoted in 2013, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts: : Previously published 1930 and 1965 (Routledge), edited by A. V....
    Synonyms:
    excellently

Synonyms of beneshiply

Forms of beneshiply

comparativemore beneshiply
superlativemost beneshiply
alternative formbenshiply

Origin of beneshiply

From beneship + -ly.

Questions about beneshiply

What does beneshiply mean?
Beneshiply means excellently.
What part of speech is beneshiply?
Beneshiply is an adverb.

Words near beneshiply in the dictionary

  1. Benesch
  2. Benesches
  3. Benesh
  4. Beneshes
  5. beneship
  6. beneshiply
  7. benet
  8. Benet's
  9. Benetnasch
  10. Benetnash
  11. benets

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