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▪ I. freckly, a.|ˈfrɛklɪ|
[f. freckle n. + -y1.]
Full of spots or freckles.
a1704T. Brown Highlander 14 He..plumps his Freckly Cheeks with stinking Weed [Tobacco]. 1740Pineda Span. Dict., Sarpullido, freckly, motly, or full of small Spots. 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans v. 156 Skin Colour. Light, Medium, Swarthy, Freckly.
▪ II. † ˈfreckly, ˈfrackly, adv. Chiefly Sc.
[f. freck a. + -ly2.]
a. Voraciously, greedily.
b. Eagerly, with spirit, promptly, lustily.
a.c1205Lay. 31772 He æt of ane uisce urechliche swiðe. 1375Barbour Bruce vii. 166 Thai rostit in hy thair met, And fell rycht frakly for till et.
b.c1440York Myst. xi. 393 Do charge oure charyottis swithe And frekly folowes me. 1513Douglas æneis viii. vii. 164 Wonder frakly thai Onto thair labour can thaim all addres. 1600J. Melvill Diary (1842) 362 The gentilmen offerit tham selves verie fraclie. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. 669 How fracklie, as a perjured and man-sworne person he went forward. |