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hellishly

adv

Etymology

From hellish + -ly.

  1. derived from *ḱel-✻ — “to cover, conceal, save”
  2. inherited from *haljō✻ — “concealed place, netherworld”
  3. inherited from *hallju✻
  4. inherited from hell
  5. inherited from helle
  6. suffixed as hellish — “hell + ish”
  7. suffixed as hellishly — “hellish + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a hellish manner.

    • I expect you to feel pretty sick, but if you imagine that this means nothing to me either, you are hellishly mistaken.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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