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rebelly

rebelly adjective: rebellious.

Adjective

rebelly (comparative more rebelly, superlative most rebelly)

  1. (obsolete) rebellious
    • “COME, tell us the name of the rebelly crew, / Who lifted the pike on the Curragh with you;[…]1888, “The Patriot Mother: A Ballad of '98”, in Henry Halliday Sparling, editor, Irish Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Irish Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads, Walter Scott, page 393

Forms of rebelly

comparativemore rebelly
superlativemost rebelly

Origin of rebelly

From rebel + -y.

Questions about rebelly

What does rebelly mean?
Rebelly means rebellious.
What part of speech is rebelly?
Rebelly is an adjective.

Words near rebelly in the dictionary

  1. rebellous
  2. rebellow
  3. rebellowed
  4. rebellowing
  5. rebellows
  6. rebelly
  7. Rebelo
  8. Rebelos
  9. rebels
  10. rebels without a cause
  11. rebels without causes

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