muchly
muchly adverb: very much, very.
Adverb
muchly (not comparable)
- Very much, very.
- Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2
- Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253
Examples of muchly in a sentence
- Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts &...
- I've been thinking muchly about this in the past few weeks while sitting on the benches watching various fashion weeks.2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd....
Origin of muchly
From much + -ly.
Words formed from muchly
Questions about muchly
- What does muchly mean?
- Muchly means very much, very.
- How do you use muchly in a sentence?
- Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.
- What part of speech is muchly?
- Muchly is an adverb.
Words near muchly in the dictionary
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