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nimbly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English nimble Middle English -ly English -ly English nimbly From nimble + -ly.

Meanings

1. in a nimble manner
   • "The bee belongs to the one who caught it! If you catch it, it's your bee!" he said, nimbly jumping up and snatching a bee out of the air. "Yow! This one's mine!" 2000, Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by William Scott Wilson, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan, →ISBN:
   • And now, in ſtead of mounting Barbed Steeds, / To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries, / He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber, / To the laſcivious pleaſing of a Lute. c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 173:
   • “Nimbly” quoth he, “do the fingers move / If a man be but used to his trade.” 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 85:

Forms

Translations (4)

pl zręcznie (in a nimble manner) · pl zwinnie (in a nimble manner) · sa लघु (in a nimble manner) · la agiliter (in a nimble manner)