kiddily
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]kiddily (comparative more kiddily, superlative most kiddily)
- (slang, obsolete) In a fashionable or showy manner.
- 1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street, page 105:
- […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.
- 1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe, volume 3, page 23:
- The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary