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patchily

adv

Etymology

From patchy + -ly.

  1. derived from pieche
  2. inherited from *plakjō✻ — “spot, stain”
  3. inherited from *plakkju✻
  4. inherited from *plæċċ✻
  5. inherited from pacche
  6. formed as patchy — “patch + -y”
  7. suffixed as patchily — “patchy + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a patchy manner.

    • Hawkins, Lewis and Hankin are placed in the Diachronic category due to their attempt at a historical perspective, even though that is very patchily executed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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