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neighborlily en · ADV

Etymology

From neighborly + -ly.

Meanings

1. (US, rare) In a neighborly manner.
   • Old Toby rises from his mat, / Sniffs neighborlily at the cat, / And yawns, (a trifle wide at that,) / With an old friend’s audacity; 1906, A Key to Puzzledom; or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art, page 104:
   • The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back. 1931 April, Margaret C. Moloney, “Leave It to Mike”, in The Catholic World, volume CXXXIII, number 793, page 62:
   • Both men greeted and nodded neighborlily at each other. 1933, Albert Halper, Union Square, published 1990, page 42:
   • David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighborlily, as ever. 1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 279:
   • The Sloan and Padgway places adjoined neighborlily. 1922 July, Ida M. Evans, “His Wife’s Money”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXIII, number 1, page 72:

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