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icily

adv
/ˈaɪ.sɪ.li/UK

Etymology

From icy + -ly.

  1. derived from *h₁eyH-✻ — “ice, frost”
  2. inherited from *īsą✻ — “ice”
  3. inherited from *īs✻
  4. inherited from īs
  5. inherited from hyse
  6. formed as icy — “ice + -y”
  7. suffixed as icily — “icy + ly”

Definitions

  1. In the manner of ice

    In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect.

    • The cold Alpine air flowed icily into his car, so he stopped by the roadside to put on a leather trench-coat, thick scarf, and woollen hat[…]

  2. In an uncaring or coolly angry manner.

    • […]quite often her husband and Jo did not eat at home, or sat icily silent through a meal.
    • Bond had pulled her head back by her hair and had kissed her once, long and cruelly. Then he had told her to go to sleep and had leant back and waited icily for his body to leave him alone.
    • "So I was made to look the fool?" Jason said icily.

The neighborhood

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