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cakily en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English caky Middle English -ly English -ly English cakily From caky + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a caky way.
   • From what I remember now of those girls, all with their hair rolled on top of their heads, their lips darkly painted, their cheeks cakily powdered […] 1956, The Tamarack Review:
   • He had been sleeping on top of the coverlet it seemed, and he still had on his swamp-stained pants, which had dried cakily along his legs. 1993, Madison Smartt Bell, Save Me, Joe Louis:

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