Americanlyadv.
/əˈmɛrᵻkənli/, U.S. /əˈmɛrəkənli/ Chiefly British.
In an American manner or style; as if American.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adverb]
Americanly1832
Yankeeishly1855
1832 F. A. Butler Jrnl. II. 64 Miss ——..pronounces Italian very Americanly.
1892 Illustr. London News Summer 3 Horribly, incredibly, Americanly rich.
1906 Daily Chron. 13 Apr. 4/7 Rather than ‘expect’ in this sense, let us Americanly ‘calculate’, or even ‘guess’.
1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned iii. xxiii. 309 The Kensingtonian lady..stiffened in the presence of these Americanly self-assured, pink-faced English parlour maids.
2000 Hindu (Nexis) 29 Oct. It was the body language of a corporation, a body language which Americanly said: ‘Hey flunkeys, this is an office, and in this office thou shalt genuflect’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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