释义 |
deedily, adv. dial.|ˈdiːdɪlɪ| [f. deedy + -ly2.] Actively, busily.
1813Jane Austen Lett. II. 173 They are each [busy] about a rabbit net, and sit as deedily to it, side by side, as any two Uncle Franks could do. 1815― Emma (1870) II. x. 204 Frank Churchill..most deedily occupied about her spectacles. 1859Burton in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 241 They row in ‘spirts’, applying deedily to their paddling. |