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In some senses, hooly is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
hooly
adv 2adj 1name 1
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4ADJ.
fugitive
VERB + HOOLY
drink, walked
HOOLY + NOUN
doon, fini
ADV.
fairly, perfitely
Definitions
adj
1
Holy.
adv
1
Wholly; all the way.
[…]bee by our Executours hooly and perfitely finiſshed in every behalve, after the maner and fourme before rehersed, and futingly to that that is begoune and doon of theim.
This couldna hae lasted abune some ten minutes or less, when he began to wax weakish, and to stay rather langer at a time aneath than seemed consistent wi' prudence; sae I walked hooly doon to the bank, and cried on him to come oot, unless he was set on felo-de-se.
2
Softly; carefully.
name
1
Obsolete form of Holi (“Hindu festival”).
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[…]bee by our Executours hooly and perfitely finiſshed in every behalve, after the maner and fourme before rehersed, and futingly to that that is begoune and doon of theim.
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This couldna hae lasted abune some ten minutes or less, when he began to wax weakish, and to stay rather langer at a time aneath than seemed consistent wi' prudence; sae I walked hooly doon to the ban
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1840, Joanna Baillie, Hooly and Fairly, Fugitive Verses, 1851, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, 2nd Edition, page 819, O, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly!
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