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freshly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɹɛʃli/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.

Meanings

1. Recently, newly.
   • Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away. 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
   • The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.
   • He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet. 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54:
   • Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C). 2015 July 6, “Diagnosis of Morquio Syndrome in Dried Blood Spots Based on a New MRM-MS Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
2. (uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.

Forms

Synonyms

unmannerly (rude manner) · uncivilly (rude manner) · lately · rudely (rude manner) · impolitely (rude manner)

Translations (9)

gl recentemente (recently) · nrf fraîchement (recently) · fr fraîchement (recently) · eo freŝe (recently) · ca frescament (rude manner) · fr froidement (rude manner) · ar قُبَيْلاً (recently) · ca de fresc (recently) · ca recentment (recently)