sickerly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker + -ly.
Adverb[edit]
sickerly
- (obsolete outside dialects) Certainly.
- 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:
- My Lord sickerly, / Quoth he, faine would I your pleasure fulfill.
- 1634, Richard Brome, Thomas Heywood, The Late Lancashire Witches:
- Awa awaw, sayn yeou this sickerly, or done you but jaum me?
- 1742, Robert Forbes, Ajax His Speech to the Grecian Knabs:
- My gentle bleed […] Right sickerly does plead.