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Welshly

Welshly adverb: in a Welsh manner.

Adverb

Welshly (comparative more Welshly, superlative most Welshly)

  1. In a Welsh manner.
    • A sooner journey will be very combersome and jeopardous in regard of wayes, now deepe and dangerous, at all times steepe, craggy, and welshly teedious, wherefore (I trust) his Maᵗⁱᵉ will not denie soe old a servaunt such a winter suite, but be as God unto me, who desireth not yᵉ death of a sinner...1629 October 31, Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, quoting Theophilus Field, “Endymion Porter. 1586—1649.”, in Lives of the Lords Strangford, with Their Ancestors and Contemporaries through Ten...
    • The 3d named Jenkin James, a luſty young Fellow, about the ſame Heigth as Gaſtril, has a good freſh Complection, bred by trade a Taylor, but of late has been uſed to ſawing, talks very much Welſhly, and had on when he went away a coarſe red Coat and Waſtecoat, the Buttons and Button Holes of the...1739 May 7, “Advertisements”, in The South-Carolina Gazette. […], number 286, Charleston, S.C., published 16 June 1739, page [2], column 2

Examples of Welshly in a sentence

  • Pity it wasn’t in Wales, as then they would Welshly-and-grammatically speak of “appearing before Shee” as “appearing before Her.”1893 December 16, “A Feminine Triumph”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, number 2736, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […]...
  • They’d taught her to speak Welshly – she didn’t always, but she could.1999, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, Everything You Need, London: Vintage, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37:

Forms of Welshly

comparativemore Welshly
superlativemost Welshly

Origin of Welshly

From Welsh + -ly.

Questions about Welshly

What does Welshly mean?
Welshly means in a Welsh manner.
How do you use Welshly in a sentence?
Pity it wasn’t in Wales, as then they would Welshly-and-grammatically speak of “appearing before Shee” as “appearing before Her.”
What part of speech is Welshly?
Welshly is an adverb.

Words near Welshly in the dictionary

  1. welshing
  2. Welshism
  3. Welshisms
  4. welshite
  5. Welshland
  6. Welshly
  7. Welshman
  8. Welshmans Reef
  9. Welshmen
  10. Welshness
  11. welshnut

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