fickly

English

Etymology

From fickle +‎ -ly.

Adverb

fickly (comparative more fickly, superlative most fickly)

1. (obsolete) In a fickle manner.
   • 1666 March 30, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎^[1], volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 345–346:

     Up, and away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and did well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being told of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of her owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a quarter of a yeare together.

References

• “fickly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• flicky