akshully

English

Adverb

akshully (not comparable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of actually.
   • 1892, Elijah P. Brown, chapter IV, in Blasts from a Ram's Horn: Meetin Matters on the Ciderville Sirkut - Sayings, Sermons, and Lectures‎^[1], Eaton & Mains, page 119:

     And then the amazin thing about it was, Jess, that the preecher akshully peered to bleeve his own dockturn, and put it into praktiss […]

   • 1989, West Coast Review of Books‎^[2], Rapport Publishing Company, page 19:

     Can you believe that Knopf akshully is publishing a book/screenplay on Walter Winchell, the gossiper of the 1930s? They are.

   • 2012 December 11, Robin Jarvis, Thorn Ogres of Hagwood‎^[3], Open Road Media, →ISBN, page 217:

     They didn't akshully go that way, but Finnen thought they had.” Diffi Maffin frowned, and the many lines of her face crinkled and spread over her features like ripples expanding across a pool.