Welshly

English

Etymology

From Welsh +‎ -ly.

Adverb

Welshly (comparative more Welshly, superlative most Welshly)

1. In a Welsh manner.
   • 1629 October 31, Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, quoting Theophilus Field, “Endymion Porter. 1586—1649.”, in Lives of the Lords Strangford, with Their Ancestors and Contemporaries through Ten Generations, London, Paris, New York, N.Y.: Cassell Petter & Galpin, published 1877, page 56:

     A sooner journey will be very combersome and jeopardous in regard of wayes, now deepe and dangerous, at all times steepe, craggy, and welshly teedious, wherefore (I trust) his Ma^tie will not denie soe old a servaunt such a winter suite, but be as God unto me, who desireth not y^e death of a sinner, neither will y^e Kinge my master desire y^e death of a most loyally faithful subject.

     According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “The allusion is probably to the proverbially long Welsh mile”.

   • 1739 May 7, “Advertisements”, in The South-Carolina Gazette. […], number 286, Charleston, S.C., published 1739 June 16, page [2], column 2:

     The 3d named Jenkin James, a luſty young Fellow, about the ſame Heigth as Gaſtril, has a good freſh Complection, bred by trade a Taylor, but of late has been uſed to ſawing, talks very much Welſhly, and had on when he went away a coarſe red Coat and Waſtecoat, the Buttons and Button Holes of the Coat black

   • 1893 December 16, “A Feminine Triumph”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, number 2736, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], page 277, column 1:

     Shee, Q.C., appointed Judge of the Court of Record at Salford. Naturally Shee likes being courted. Pity it wasn’t in Wales, as then they would Welshly-and-grammatically speak of “appearing before Shee” as “appearing before Her.”

   • 1999, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, Everything You Need, London: Vintage, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37:

     They’d taught her to speak Welshly – she didn’t always, but she could.

References

• “Welshly, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.