dirtily

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English dirty

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English dirtily

From dirty + -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

dirtily (comparative more dirtily, superlative most dirtily)

1. In a dirty manner.

   Antonym: cleanly

   • 1810s, anonymous author, The Wicked wife (poem):

     She kens I like exceedingly,
     a dainty dish o' meat;
     But she cooks it up so dirtily,
     that a bit I canno' eat

   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     I expostulated, and desired that he should have his in a mug; affirming that I could not taste the liquid treated so dirtily.

   • 1852, Richard Hildreth, The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Boston, Mass.: Tappan and Whittemore; Milwaukee, Wis.: Rood and Whittemore:

     The head servant of the establishment, a large, portly, soft-spoken mulatto, but very shabbily and dirtily dressed, seemed, for some reason or other, — perhaps from my politeness to him, — to take quite a fancy to me.

Translations

in a dirty manner

• Catalan: brutament (ca), sutzament, llordament
• Portuguese: sujamente
• Spanish: suciamente