helly en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈhɛ.li/
Etymology
From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Hellish, infernal.
Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.
1892, Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus, page 138:These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […].
1603, Samuel Harsnet, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures; quoted in Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times, 2013, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most helly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more helly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Synonyms
subtartarean · Tartarean · hellish · Hadean · Plutonian · Acherontic · stygian · Hadean · infernal · helly · Plutonic · stygian