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roolie

roolie adjective: peaceful; still.

Adjective

roolie (comparative roolier or more roolie, superlative rooliest or most roolie)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Peaceful; still.

Synonyms of roolie

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Forms of roolie

comparativeroolier
comparativemore roolie
superlativerooliest
superlativemost roolie

Origin of roolie

From Middle English rouly, roly, equivalent to roo + -ly. Cognate with Danish rolig (“calm”), Icelandic rólegur (“calm”).

Words formed from roolie

Questions about roolie

What does roolie mean?
Roolie means peaceful; still.
What part of speech is roolie?
Roolie is an adjective.

Words near roolie in the dictionary

  1. Rookyard
  2. Rookyards
  3. rookying
  4. rool
  5. rooled
  6. roolie
  7. rooling
  8. rools
  9. roolya-boolya
  10. roolyeh-boolyeh
  11. room

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