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horridly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin horridusbor. English horrid Middle English -ly English -ly English horridly From horrid + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a horrid manner.
   • [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules? c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:
   • The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 283:
   • […] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him. 1866, William Stamer, Recollections of a Life of Adventure, volume 1, page 83:

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