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beneshiply en · ADV

Etymology

From beneship + -ly.

Meanings

1. (UK, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) Excellently
   • The doxy dell can cut bene whids, And wap well for a win, And prig and cloy so beneshiply, All the dewse-a-vill within. , x, "O per se O", "The Canting Song", quoted in 2013, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts: : Previously published 1930 and 1965 (Routledge), edited by A. V. Judges, page 381

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Synonyms

excellently