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freshly

adv
/ˈfɹɛʃli/

Etymology

From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.

  1. inherited from freschely

Definitions

  1. Recently, newly.

    • The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.
    • Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.
    • Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C).

  2. In a rude or impertinent manner.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for freshly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA