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† ˈsportly, a. Obs.
[f. sport n.1 + -ly1.]
1. Of or pertaining to, connected with, sport; sporting; sportsmanlike.
1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1741/3 As many as wish well to their Town, or are Incouragers of Sportly Meetings. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 217 As little favourable..as these sportly gentlemen are..towards the care or culture of their own species. 1781P. Beckford Th. Hunting (1802) 185 You also object to my saying catch a fox: you call it a bad expression, and say that it is not sportly.
2. Sportive, frolicsome, playful. rare—1.
1696A. de la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 78 Turneps..make them so sportly, lively, and vigorous that they play and leap like young kidds. |