dreichlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈdriːxli/, U.S.

/ˈdrikli/,

/ˈdrixli/, Scottish English

/ˈdrixlɪ/

Forms: see dreich adj. and -ly suffix²; also English regional (northern and north midlands) 1700s– dreely Brit.

/ˈdriːli/, U.S.

/ˈdrili/.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dreich adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < dreich adj. + -ly suffix².

Scottish and English regional (northern and north midlands) in later use.

†1. With (appropriate) solemnity or seriousness. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

lOE St. Giles (Corpus Cambr. 303) (1980) 126 Ða on sume dæge ealswa he wæs dreolice on his gebedum innan Petres mynstre þa geseah he þærinne twa duren.

lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 168 Hire þa to leat Malcus swa dreohlice and hire georne bæd and þus cwæð: Gemune þu me.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 344 When hit [sc. þe ark] watz fettled & forged..Þenne con dryȝttyn hym dele dryȝly þyse wordez: ‘Now, Noe..art þou al redy?’.

†2. With great force, decisiveness, conviction, etc.; to a great degree or extent; strongly, relentlessly, earnestly; spec. (with reference to drinking) heavily, deeply. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adverb]

strongeOE

hotOE

unsoftOE

snellya1000

stitha1000

stronglyOE

woodlyc1000

hatelyOE

unridelyc1175

wood1297

mainlyc1300

dreec1330

spackly?c1335

brothelyc1340

bremelya1375

fiercelya1375

violentlya1387

throlyc1390

roughlya1400

snarplya1400

unrekenlya1400

dreichlyc1400

ranklyc1400

witherlyc1400

maliciouslya1450

fervently1480

roidlyc1480

thrafully1535

vehement?1541

toughly1589

sickerly1596

vengeously1599

virulently1599

rageously1600

ragefullya1631

churlishly1657

improbously1657

rampantly1698

fierce1771

savagerous1832

fulgurantly1873

franticly1883

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb]

stronglyeOE

felec950

strongeOE

highlyOE

highOE

greatlya1200

stourlya1225

greata1325

dreec1330

deeplya1400

mightya1400

dreichlyc1400

mighty?a1425

sorec1440

mainlyc1450

greatumly1456

madc1487

profoundly1489

stronglya1492

muchwhata1513

shrewlya1529

heapa1547

vengeance?1548

sorely1562

smartlyc1580

mightly1582

mightily1587

violently1601

intensively1604

almightily1612

violent1629

seriously1643

intensely1646

importunately1660

shrewdly1664

gey1686

sadly1738

plenty1775

vitally1787

substantively1795

badly1813

far1814

heavily1819

serious1825

measurably1834

dearly1843

bally1939

majorly1955

sizzlingly1956

majorly1978

fecking1983

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 235 Drof hem dryȝlych adoun þe depe.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 224 (MED) A mannez dom moȝt dryȝly demme Er mynde moȝt malte in hit mesure.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 257 Itt is licoure full delicious..Wherfore I rede drely A draughte þat ȝe drynke.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 116 And thou drynk drely, In thy poll wyll it synk.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388) 2379 I drow into a dreme, & dreghly me thought That mercury..Thre goddes hade gotten goyng hym bye.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) l. 217 ‘Lat the cop raik for my bennysoun, And gar our Gaist begin, and syne drink thow to me...’ They drank dreichlie about, thay wosche and thay rais.

a. Continuously or continually; unceasingly, incessantly. In later use esp. (with reference to rainfall): persistently, in a sustained way. Now rare (cf. sense 3c).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > [adverb] > in a continuous manner or without stopping

fastlyOE

anonOE

everOE

everylikec1225

continuallyc1305

atreet1340

unceasinglyc1340

perpetuallyc1385

incessably1398

desselya1400

ithandlya1400

dreichlyc1400

restlessc1400

contunely1447

all alongc1450

dessantlyc1460

incessantly1481

still opece1488

uncessantlya1500

continuinglya1513

in ane1513

away1526

incessant1558

restlessly1567

square1570

stintless1598

ceaselessly?1606

residently1609

unrestingly1621

indesinently1651

jugially1654

unintermissively1656

constantly1682

hand to fist1706

forever1753

unintermittingly1784

round the clock1816

continuously1826

unpausingly1831

sustainedly1842

pauselessly1845

remorselessly1845

around the clock1872

play-by-play1889

ball-by-ball1906

non-stop1920

solidly1937

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb] > without cessation

fastlyOE

without ceasec1330

without ceasinga1340

unceasinglyc1340

incessably1398

dreichlyc1400

restlessc1400

perpetuallyc1475

incessantly1481

uncessantlya1500

incessant1558

ceaselessly?1606

indesinently1651

jugially1654

unintermissively1656

upon or on a stretch1689

at one or a stretch1774

unabatingly1793

at the stretch1867

never-ceasingly1869

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1026 Þay..þe wyn dronken, Daunsed ful dreȝly wyth dere caroleȝ.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2028 (MED) [They] Drawen dreghely the wyne and drynkyn thareaftyre.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 141 He driet vp the dropes & [perh. read þat] dreghly can syle.

a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) cxix. 611 I have waited long and dreely looked even to the weakning of my sight, and impairing of my senses, for thee to deliver me.

a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) ii. 99 Dreely, ‘It rains dreely’, i.e. hard and steadily.

1802 G. Culley Let. 3 June in M. Culley & G. Culley Farming Lett. (2006) 295 It has spitt on all the forenoon, but since one it has rained pretty drealy now 3 o'clock and past.

1844 Preston Chron. 12 Oct. Un it reint meety dreely, un i'r feeort os heaw we r'n beown t' heh o weet dey on't, un ot aw'r plezzur'd be farely bluzzt.

1899 I. Wilkinson in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 166/2 [West Yorkshire] It rains dreely away.

2012 @janismackay 31 May in twitter.com (accessed 25 Oct. 2019) Easier, isn't it, to apply the bum glue and get down to the task of writing another chapter, when it gently, dreichly rains outside.

b. Slowly; tediously. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb]

slowlyc1384

slowa1398

tortoise-like1645

lently1655

snail-like1825

loiteringly1836

dreichly1844

oozily1871

leadenly1879

snailishly1889

glacially1975

1844 Leeds Times 9 Nov. 2/5 More than 400 head of cattle and about 3,000 sheep..were dreely disposed of, not being of a very choice description.

1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Dreely, slowly, tediously. ‘He talks very dreely’.

1880 J. E. Watt Poet. Sketches 44 I've toiled, while dreichly dragged the years.

1907 Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 5 Apr. 8/6 The competition of the Consolation billiards tournament at the Liberal Club is ‘driechly’ drawing to a close. The premier competition was played off in record time. Why the laxity in the minor event?

1942 Sunday Post 5 Apr. 6/3 From there the film, like the acting and presentation, rolls ‘dreichly’ to its final, feeble flicker.

c. Sadly; gloomily, in a dreary or depressing way; bleakly. Now often with reference to wet, cold, or overcast weather (cf. sense 3a).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adverb]

ungladly?c1225

wanlyc1275

dolefullyc1290

ruefullya1300

elengelyc1305

heavisomelya1382

lumpishlyc1450

tristily?c1450

dowlyc1540

unjoyfully1553

tragically1567

dully1600

tragicly1604

heartlessly1606

unjovially1607

dejectedly1611

dejectly1611

disconsolately1614

dumpishly1621

uncheerfullya1628

dolorously1638

mopishly1651

despondingly1656

despondentlya1677

unhappily1688

dismally1709

gloomily1727

grumly1727

joylessly1766

mopingly1788

sombrously1796

glumly1805

malagrugrously1818

funerally1829

broodingly1834

unenjoyingly1844

downheartedly1847

unblissfully1849

droopingly1852

dreichly1853

sombrely1860

dispiritedly1864

glumpily1865

pleasurelessly1873

depressedly1880

chapfallenly1883

sighfully1900

bleakly1938

1853 J. Grant Jane Seton I. xvi. 169 I hear the cries of a woman; eh, sirs, but she scraighs dreichly and eerilie!

1861 All the Best III. vii. 111 Twilight began to creep over the sky, and the Marbrook hills grew dim, and the wind eddied dreely through the tall old elm trees outside the window.

1880 A. Lyell Our New Candidate (ed. 5) p. vi I had barely closed my een when a michty shade passed before me. It had the gran' Imperial air o' the ault warld about it. I thocht o' puir Mary Stuart smilin' dreechly on the scaffold.

1927 Forfar Disp. 10 Mar. The orchestra's ‘Representation of Chaos’ was ‘dreichly’ realistic, and in striking contrast with the beautiful harmonies which heralded the creation of light.

1949 W. Midgley in W. J. Halliday & A. S. Umpleby White Rose Garland Yorks. Dial. Verse 93 Thi tail that once cocked up sa peart Hangs dreely down behind.

2016 @LynieT 26 July in twitter.com (accessed 25 Oct. 2019) Supposedly running day for me, but dreichly yucky outside.

†d. English regional (Lancashire). With fixed attention; intently; closely. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1862 Let. 1 Apr. in Rochdale Observer 5 Apr. 6/2 Critics sometimes strain at gnats and analyse them ‘dreely’.

1867 Bury Times 16 Nov. 5/4 I cannot say whether it was dead. I did not look so ‘dreely’ at it.

1872 Manch. Times 6 July 1/3 His owd woman donned her spectacles on, an' look't at th' hare very dreely; an' they booath watch't it o th' while it wur loppin' th' milk up.

1904 ‘J. Ackworth’ Old Wenyon's Will xi. 171 Still playing with her bacon, holding it out and inspecting it dreely.., she smiled a smile that raised a very devil of passion within him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dreichly
释义	dreichlyadv. Brit. /ˈdriːxli/, U.S. /ˈdrikli/, /ˈdrixli/, Scottish English /ˈdrixlɪ/ Forms: see dreich adj. and -ly suffix²; also English regional (northern and north midlands) 1700s– dreely Brit. /ˈdriːli/, U.S. /ˈdrili/. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dreich adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < dreich adj. + -ly suffix². Scottish and English regional (northern and north midlands) in later use. †1. With (appropriate) solemnity or seriousness. Obsolete. ΚΠ lOE St. Giles (Corpus Cambr. 303) (1980) 126 Ða on sume dæge ealswa he wæs dreolice on his gebedum innan Petres mynstre þa geseah he þærinne twa duren. lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 168 Hire þa to leat Malcus swa dreohlice and hire georne bæd and þus cwæð: Gemune þu me. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 344 When hit [sc. þe ark] watz fettled & forged..Þenne con dryȝttyn hym dele dryȝly þyse wordez: ‘Now, Noe..art þou al redy?’. †2. With great force, decisiveness, conviction, etc.; to a great degree or extent; strongly, relentlessly, earnestly; spec. (with reference to drinking) heavily, deeply. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adverb] strongeOE hotOE unsoftOE snellya1000 stitha1000 stronglyOE woodlyc1000 hatelyOE unridelyc1175 wood1297 mainlyc1300 dreec1330 spackly?c1335 brothelyc1340 bremelya1375 fiercelya1375 violentlya1387 throlyc1390 roughlya1400 snarplya1400 unrekenlya1400 dreichlyc1400 ranklyc1400 witherlyc1400 maliciouslya1450 fervently1480 roidlyc1480 thrafully1535 vehement?1541 toughly1589 sickerly1596 vengeously1599 virulently1599 rageously1600 ragefullya1631 churlishly1657 improbously1657 rampantly1698 fierce1771 savagerous1832 fulgurantly1873 franticly1883 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] stronglyeOE felec950 strongeOE highlyOE highOE greatlya1200 stourlya1225 greata1325 dreec1330 deeplya1400 mightya1400 dreichlyc1400 mighty?a1425 sorec1440 mainlyc1450 greatumly1456 madc1487 profoundly1489 stronglya1492 muchwhata1513 shrewlya1529 heapa1547 vengeance?1548 sorely1562 smartlyc1580 mightly1582 mightily1587 violently1601 intensively1604 almightily1612 violent1629 seriously1643 intensely1646 importunately1660 shrewdly1664 gey1686 sadly1738 plenty1775 vitally1787 substantively1795 badly1813 far1814 heavily1819 serious1825 measurably1834 dearly1843 bally1939 majorly1955 sizzlingly1956 majorly1978 fecking1983 c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 235 Drof hem dryȝlych adoun þe depe. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 224 (MED) A mannez dom moȝt dryȝly demme Er mynde moȝt malte in hit mesure. a1450 York Plays (1885) 257 Itt is licoure full delicious..Wherfore I rede drely A draughte þat ȝe drynke. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 116 And thou drynk drely, In thy poll wyll it synk. c1540 (?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388) 2379 I drow into a dreme, & dreghly me thought That mercury..Thre goddes hade gotten goyng hym bye. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) l. 217 ‘Lat the cop raik for my bennysoun, And gar our Gaist begin, and syne drink thow to me...’ They drank dreichlie about, thay wosche and thay rais. 3. a. Continuously or continually; unceasingly, incessantly. In later use esp. (with reference to rainfall): persistently, in a sustained way. Now rare (cf. sense 3c). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [adverb] > in a continuous manner or without stopping fastlyOE anonOE everOE everylikec1225 continuallyc1305 atreet1340 unceasinglyc1340 perpetuallyc1385 incessably1398 desselya1400 ithandlya1400 dreichlyc1400 restlessc1400 contunely1447 all alongc1450 dessantlyc1460 incessantly1481 still opece1488 uncessantlya1500 continuinglya1513 in ane1513 away1526 incessant1558 restlessly1567 square1570 stintless1598 ceaselessly?1606 residently1609 unrestingly1621 indesinently1651 jugially1654 unintermissively1656 constantly1682 hand to fist1706 forever1753 unintermittingly1784 round the clock1816 continuously1826 unpausingly1831 sustainedly1842 pauselessly1845 remorselessly1845 around the clock1872 play-by-play1889 ball-by-ball1906 non-stop1920 solidly1937 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb] > without cessation fastlyOE without ceasec1330 without ceasinga1340 unceasinglyc1340 incessably1398 dreichlyc1400 restlessc1400 perpetuallyc1475 incessantly1481 uncessantlya1500 incessant1558 ceaselessly?1606 indesinently1651 jugially1654 unintermissively1656 upon or on a stretch1689 at one or a stretch1774 unabatingly1793 at the stretch1867 never-ceasingly1869 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1026 Þay..þe wyn dronken, Daunsed ful dreȝly wyth dere caroleȝ. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2028 (MED) [They] Drawen dreghely the wyne and drynkyn thareaftyre. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 141 He driet vp the dropes & [perh. read þat] dreghly can syle. a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) cxix. 611 I have waited long and dreely looked even to the weakning of my sight, and impairing of my senses, for thee to deliver me. a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) ii. 99 Dreely, ‘It rains dreely’, i.e. hard and steadily. 1802 G. Culley Let. 3 June in M. Culley & G. Culley Farming Lett. (2006) 295 It has spitt on all the forenoon, but since one it has rained pretty drealy now 3 o'clock and past. 1844 Preston Chron. 12 Oct. Un it reint meety dreely, un i'r feeort os heaw we r'n beown t' heh o weet dey on't, un ot aw'r plezzur'd be farely bluzzt. 1899 I. Wilkinson in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 166/2 [West Yorkshire] It rains dreely away. 2012 @janismackay 31 May in twitter.com (accessed 25 Oct. 2019) Easier, isn't it, to apply the bum glue and get down to the task of writing another chapter, when it gently, dreichly rains outside. b. Slowly; tediously. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] slowlyc1384 slowa1398 tortoise-like1645 lently1655 snail-like1825 loiteringly1836 dreichly1844 oozily1871 leadenly1879 snailishly1889 glacially1975 1844 Leeds Times 9 Nov. 2/5 More than 400 head of cattle and about 3,000 sheep..were dreely disposed of, not being of a very choice description. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Dreely, slowly, tediously. ‘He talks very dreely’. 1880 J. E. Watt Poet. Sketches 44 I've toiled, while dreichly dragged the years. 1907 Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 5 Apr. 8/6 The competition of the Consolation billiards tournament at the Liberal Club is ‘driechly’ drawing to a close. The premier competition was played off in record time. Why the laxity in the minor event? 1942 Sunday Post 5 Apr. 6/3 From there the film, like the acting and presentation, rolls ‘dreichly’ to its final, feeble flicker. c. Sadly; gloomily, in a dreary or depressing way; bleakly. Now often with reference to wet, cold, or overcast weather (cf. sense 3a). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adverb] ungladly?c1225 wanlyc1275 dolefullyc1290 ruefullya1300 elengelyc1305 heavisomelya1382 lumpishlyc1450 tristily?c1450 dowlyc1540 unjoyfully1553 tragically1567 dully1600 tragicly1604 heartlessly1606 unjovially1607 dejectedly1611 dejectly1611 disconsolately1614 dumpishly1621 uncheerfullya1628 dolorously1638 mopishly1651 despondingly1656 despondentlya1677 unhappily1688 dismally1709 gloomily1727 grumly1727 joylessly1766 mopingly1788 sombrously1796 glumly1805 malagrugrously1818 funerally1829 broodingly1834 unenjoyingly1844 downheartedly1847 unblissfully1849 droopingly1852 dreichly1853 sombrely1860 dispiritedly1864 glumpily1865 pleasurelessly1873 depressedly1880 chapfallenly1883 sighfully1900 bleakly1938 1853 J. Grant Jane Seton I. xvi. 169 I hear the cries of a woman; eh, sirs, but she scraighs dreichly and eerilie! 1861 All the Best III. vii. 111 Twilight began to creep over the sky, and the Marbrook hills grew dim, and the wind eddied dreely through the tall old elm trees outside the window. 1880 A. Lyell Our New Candidate (ed. 5) p. vi I had barely closed my een when a michty shade passed before me. It had the gran' Imperial air o' the ault warld about it. I thocht o' puir Mary Stuart smilin' dreechly on the scaffold. 1927 Forfar Disp. 10 Mar. The orchestra's ‘Representation of Chaos’ was ‘dreichly’ realistic, and in striking contrast with the beautiful harmonies which heralded the creation of light. 1949 W. Midgley in W. J. Halliday & A. S. Umpleby White Rose Garland Yorks. Dial. Verse 93 Thi tail that once cocked up sa peart Hangs dreely down behind. 2016 @LynieT 26 July in twitter.com (accessed 25 Oct. 2019) Supposedly running day for me, but dreichly yucky outside. †d. English regional (Lancashire). With fixed attention; intently; closely. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1862 Let. 1 Apr. in Rochdale Observer 5 Apr. 6/2 Critics sometimes strain at gnats and analyse them ‘dreely’. 1867 Bury Times 16 Nov. 5/4 I cannot say whether it was dead. I did not look so ‘dreely’ at it. 1872 Manch. Times 6 July 1/3 His owd woman donned her spectacles on, an' look't at th' hare very dreely; an' they booath watch't it o th' while it wur loppin' th' milk up. 1904 ‘J. Ackworth’ Old Wenyon's Will xi. 171 Still playing with her bacon, holding it out and inspecting it dreely.., she smiled a smile that raised a very devil of passion within him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.lOE
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