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kiddily

kiddily adverb: in a fashionable or showy manner.

Adverb

kiddily (comparative more kiddily, superlative most kiddily)

  1. (obsolete, slang) In a fashionable or showy manner.
    • […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street, page 105
    • The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe, volume 3, page 23

Forms of kiddily

comparativemore kiddily
superlativemost kiddily

Questions about kiddily

What does kiddily mean?
Kiddily means in a fashionable or showy manner.
What part of speech is kiddily?
Kiddily is an adverb.

Words near kiddily in the dictionary

  1. kiddiewink
  2. kiddiewinkie
  3. kiddiewinkies
  4. kiddiewinks
  5. kiddified
  6. kiddily
  7. kiddin'
  8. kiddiness
  9. kidding
  10. kidding around
  11. kidding aside

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