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worldy en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English worldy, worldi. By surface analysis, world + -y.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of worldly.
   • For these worldy advantages you offer, I will sell you my body and my soul. 1919, Marguerite Stockman Dickson, Vocational Guidance for Girls:
   • Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns. 1992 November 27, Ted Shen, “Yo-Yo Ma”, in Chicago Reader:
   • Already on her second marriage when she met Chandler, she was worldy, sexually wise and 18 years his senior, a fact he apparently didn’t know until after they were married. 2007 December 30, Tom Shone, “The Big Sleepover”, in New York Times:

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worldly

worldy en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From world + -y, from world-class.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, slang) Alternative form of worldie (“anything particularly excellent of its kind”).
   alt of worldie

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