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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Indo-European *-lósder. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Germanic *mikilaz Proto-West Germanic *mikil Old English miċel Middle English muchel Middle English muche English much Middle English -ly English -ly English muchly From much + -ly.
Meanings
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(colloquial, not-comparable) Very much, very.
Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253:Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.
1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2:I've been thinking muchly about this in the past few weeks while sitting on the benches watching various fashion weeks.
2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.
1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, →OCLC, page 104: