woodly
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See also: Woodly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English woodly, wodly, wodliche (“furiously, wildly”), equivalent to wood (“mad, furious, wild, insane”) + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]woodly (comparative more woodly, superlative most woodly)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woodly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]woodly
- madly
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1299-1302:
- Ther-with the fyr of Ielousye up-sterte
With-inne his brest, and hente him by the herte
So woodly, that he lyk was to biholde
The box-tree, or the asshen dede and colde.- With that the fire of jealousy started up
Within his breast, and seized him by the heart
So madly that he was to look upon like
The box tree or the ash dead and cold.
- With that the fire of jealousy started up
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1299-1302: