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soapily en · ADV

Etymology

From soapy + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a soapy way.
   • On both sides, great precipitous mountains reach down to the sterile shores; and, on the South side, they are relieved by considerable masses of forest, and by many waterfalls, one of which is of large volume, showing like silver ribbons, and sliding soapily down the steep mountains' sides. 1897, Edmund Francis Burton, Trouting in Norway, page 103:

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