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ˈwetly, adv.
Also 6 weatly.
[f. wet a.]
In a wet manner or state.
α1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. Dd iv b, Walke thou weatly, walke thou dryly: In thy walke, walke not hyly.
β1822Byron Werner i. i. 254 Iden. How fares he? Gab. Wetly and wearily, but out of peril. 1866R. Buchanan Poems (1884) 163 For the world rolls on with air and ocean Wetly and windily round and round. 1890R. Broughton Alas! ii. vii, February has come wetly in, with rain wildly weeping against the casements. 1893J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 3 The immense beast, black, shining wetly. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 1486/3 Raffles's relations with his accomplice, Boswell, and room-mate, the wet and unendearing Bunny. Bunny..went to prison..to shield A. J., who rather let him down; but Bunny wetly forgave him. 1978Guardian Weekly 12 Mar. 21/3 A peaceable fellow-officer, played slightly wetly by the American Beau Bridges. |