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heftily

adv

Etymology

From hefty + -ly.

  1. derived from hefða — “to acquire prescriptive rights”
  2. borrowed from heft — “to cause (cattle or sheep) to become familiar with a pasture; of animals: to become familiar with a pasture; (figurative) of a person: to become settled in an occupation or place”
  3. derived from *kap-✻
  4. derived from *habjaną✻ — “to have; to hold”
  5. derived from hefð — “occupation; possession; prescriptive right”
  6. borrowed from heft
  7. formed as hefty — “heft + -y”
  8. suffixed as heftily — “hefty + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a hefty manner

    In a hefty manner; heavily.

    • [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’

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