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dykishly

dykishly adverb: in a dykish manner.

Adverb

dykishly (comparative more dykishly, superlative most dykishly)

  1. In a dykish manner.
    • The first thing that Kate, who nicknamed herself "Tommy" and even more dykishly "Thomas," did with her middle-aged financial independence was to take a female lover.1985, Judy Grahn, The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Spinsters Ink Books
    • A true double-surnamed, preferentially-treated, dykishly-inclined feminist1999 November 8, wesol...@freewwweb.com, “In The Old Days”, in alt.peeves (Usenet)

Forms of dykishly

comparativemore dykishly
superlativemost dykishly

Questions about dykishly

What does dykishly mean?
Dykishly means in a dykish manner.
What part of speech is dykishly?
Dykishly is an adverb.

Words near dykishly in the dictionary

  1. dykiest
  2. dyking
  3. dyking out
  4. dyking up
  5. dykish
  6. dykishly
  7. Dykiv
  8. Dykman
  9. Dykmans
  10. dykon
  11. dykons

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