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hooly

hooly adjective: holy.

Adjective

hooly (comparative hoolier, superlative hooliest)

  1. (archaic) Holy.

Adverb

hooly

  1. (Scotland, archaic) Wholly; all the way.
    • […]bee by our Executours hooly and perfitely finiſshed in every behalve, after the maner and fourme before rehersed, and futingly to that that is begoune and doon of theim.c. 1500, Henry VII, “The Will of King Henry VII”, in The Will of King Henry VII, published 1775, page 6
    • This couldna hae lasted abune some ten minutes or less, when he began to wax weakish, and to stay rather langer at a time aneath than seemed consistent wi' prudence; sae I walked hooly doon to the bank, and cried on him to come oot, unless he was set on felo-de-se.1834, Noctes Ambrosionæ No. LXIX: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 36, page 832
  2. (Scotland, archaic) Softly; carefully.

Proper noun capitalized: Hooly

Hooly

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Holi (“Hindu festival”).

Forms of hooly

comparativehoolier
superlativehooliest

Origin of hooly

From Middle English holi, from Old English hāliġ, hāleġ.

Words formed from hooly

Questions about hooly

What does hooly mean?
Hooly means holy.
What part of speech is hooly?
Hooly can be an adjective, an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near hooly in the dictionary

  1. hoolock gibbons
  2. hoolocks
  3. hools
  4. hooluck
  5. hoolucks
  6. hooly
  7. hooly dooly
  8. hoomalimali
  9. hooman
  10. hoomans
  11. hoomei

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