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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pubicly en · ADV

Etymology

From pubic + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a pubic way.
    • After my bath I search my armpits and crotch for signs of hair but no luck yet. I’m pubicly challenged. 2007, Ann Kelley, The Bower Bird, page 57:
    • Mr. Nessler's book stated that hair migrated around the human body, and that men with a good head of hair had very little elsewhere, while bald men tended to be very well endowed, hirsutely speaking, on the chest, shoulders, back, and pubicly. Pubicly is the antinomy of publicly. 1958, Yale University Class of 1928-1928 S, Thirty Year Record, page 30

Forms

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pubically alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

supra-pubicly