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roupily

roupily adverb: in a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.

Adverb

roupily (comparative more roupily, superlative most roupily)

  1. In a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.
    • Afterwards he went home, wrote to Jenny Patterson and 'sang a lot in spite of the cold. Very roupily.'1887, A Bernard Shaw, edited by A. M. Gibbs, Diary, →ISBN, page 293
    • Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter. The bridegroom might have stepped over the wall to the wedding chamber or walked […]1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXI, in Bud: A Novel, Harper & Brothers, page 297

Forms of roupily

comparativemore roupily
superlativemost roupily

Origin of roupily

From roupy + -ly.

Questions about roupily

What does roupily mean?
Roupily means in a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.
What part of speech is roupily?
Roupily is an adverb.

Words near roupily in the dictionary

  1. Roupenide
  2. Roupenides
  3. Roupenids
  4. Roupes
  5. roupet
  6. roupily
  7. rouping
  8. roupit
  9. roups
  10. roupy
  11. Rouran

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