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slackly

adv

Etymology

From slack + -ly.

  1. inherited from *slakaz✻
  2. inherited from slæc — “slack”
  3. inherited from slak
  4. suffixed as slackly — “slack + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a slack manner.

    • He shook my hand slackly. It was like shaking a dead fish.
    • The flags hung slackly, there wasn't a breeze in the sky.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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