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helly

adj

Etymology

From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.

  1. inherited from hellīċ — “of hell, hellish, infernal”
  2. inherited from helly

Definitions

  1. Hellish, infernal.

    • These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […].
    • Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.

  2. A surname from German, notably held by Eduard Helly.

The neighborhood

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