prettilyadv.

Brit.

/ˈprɪtᵻli/, U.S.

/ˈprɪdᵻli/

Forms: late Middle English pratily, late Middle English pratyly, late Middle English pratylych, late Middle English 1600s–1700s prattily, late Middle English–1500s prately, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s prattely, 1500s pretely, 1500s pretilie, 1500s pretilye, 1500s prettely, 1500s pretyly, 1500s–1600s pretelie, 1500s–1700s pretily, 1500s– prettily, 1600s prettilie, 1600s prettylie; English regional (northern) 1800s prattily, 1800s prattley, 1800s prattly, 1800s– pratly; Scottish pre-1700 prattelie, pre-1700 prattilie, pre-1700 pretely, pre-1700 pretilie, pre-1700 pretily, pre-1700 prettelie, pre-1700 prettilie, pre-1700 prettillie, pre-1700 1700s– prettily.

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

Etymology: < pretty adj. + -ly suffix².

a. In a cunning or clever manner; ingeniously, skilfully, neatly. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adverb] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense

sweet1338

prettilyc1450

sweetly1576

pretty1617

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] > prettily

prettilyc1450

dollishly1892

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously

craftilyeOE

wiselya1000

guisily13..

quaintc1300

quaintlyc1300

subtly1340

cunningly?a1400

subtilelyc1405

prettilyc1450

industriouslyc1487

ingeniously1548

clerkly1594

ambidextrously1657

c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 16 (MED) What that she doth is doon so pratily That noon it may amenden hardily.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xi. 282 They shoved theym so prately agenste a pyller of marbell stone that their eyen lepte oute of theyr hedes.

?a1500 Court of Love (Trin. Cambr. R.3.19) l. 420 in K. Forni Chaucerian Apocrypha (2005) Though thow seest a fawte right at thyne ye, Excuse it blive and glose it pretily.

1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 881 They were driven to give ground; and so prettily retired, defending the Consull the best they could.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper B j You can shift of an haynous accusation very pretily.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 59 Lysander riddles very prettily .

1667 S. Pepys Diary 23 Sept. (1974) VIII. 446 I find how prettily this cunning Lord can be partial and dissemble it in this case.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. Observ. 81 Chapman..very prettily wheedles his Reader into this Opinion by a most gallant Imagination.

1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville I. 237 It is pretily enough contrived, and one of the great advantages of society, that one's time..is to be sacrifised, from a false politeness to every idle creature.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. v. 103 Master Thurstan will be prettily taken in when I die, and he finds all his extra wage left back to him.

1867 Chess Player's Mag. New Ser. 3 45 The self-mate, though not difficult, is very prettily conceived.

1889 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 11 Dec. 2/5 All the horses got away very prettily and Prince Beauclerk soon pulled away from the crowd.

1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) v. 191 It was prettily devised of Aesop that the fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.

†b. With reference to speech, writing, etc.: pointedly, aptly, wittily; eloquently. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adverb] > aptly

aptlya1529

prettily1576

felicitously1828

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 243 This Archebishop..suffered the King to holde his stirup twise in one day in Normandie, but in Prato Proditorum, as Mathewe Parise very pretely writeth it.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ii. 18 When he [sc. Socrates] was laughed to scorne of Alcibiades for so doing, he answered him verie pretily.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 16 Which a Poet..expressed thus very briefly, & for that age pretily.

1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 20 We Men of wit condole for our deceased Brother in Marriage, as much as for one dead in earnest: I think that was prettily said of me, ha Harcourt?

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. i. 11 It is prettily remarked by an ancient historian..that the effusion of blood was the only circumstance which distinguished a field of battle from a field of exercise.

1783 S. Johnson Let. 3 Sept. (1994) IV. 194 Your story is a very pretty story and is very prettily narrated.

a. Attractively, charmingly; in a pleasing or appealing manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adverb]

likinglya1387

graciouslyc1400

prettilyc1450

alluringly1561

gracefully1583

attractively1604

takingly1607

charmingly1611

enchantinglya1616

winningly1663

engagingly1694

winsomely17..

enticingly1720

attractingly1753

prepossessingly1794

sweetly1840

temptingly1878

fetchingly1889

c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 115 (MED) The bewte she hath bi god alon, Hit stelith lo an hert so pratily.

a1475 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 271 A bok hym is browt..Pratylych I-wrout.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie sig. Uu.ii/2 Pretily or pleasantly spoken, lepide aut facete dictum.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 37 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or banke side.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year I. xx. 263 It looks prettily, but rewards the eye, as burning basons do, with intolerable circles of reflected fire.

a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon (1684) v. iv. 46 That sweet Honey Lord kiss'd my hand e'en now, and he kissd it so prattily, that I have kiss'd it a thousand time, since.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 9 The Ax stroaks..on the Brick,..if they be streight and parallel one to another, look very prettily.

1794 J. C. Cross Apparition! ii. 24 I be prattily made and well put together.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 98 Eva said, ‘Topsy, you arrange flowers very prettily’.

1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 70 A prettily-worked holland blouse.

1955 Times 9 May 3/4 No Bach motet, no big madrigal..relieved a succession of prettily sung choral songs.

2005 Australian (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Arts section) 10 Mozart's String Quartet K.464 was prettily played but didn't engage the audience.

b. Gently, softly, quietly. Now rare and English regional (northern).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adverb] > without harshness or gently

lightlyeOE

neshlyeOE

fairOE

neshc1175

softlyc1225

softa1325

hoolya1340

tenderlyc1385

soft and fair(ly)c1391

weakly1398

delicately?a1425

prettilyc1500

gently1533

gentle1548

breathingly1662

blandly1827

sparingly1863

piano1873

gauzily1903

creamily1948

c1500 Melusine (1895) 9 The kinge hyed hym, & helped to sette her on horsbak moche prately [Fr. doulcement].

1533 T. More Apologye 93 b Wyth that worde putte the tone pretely backe with his hande, and all to buffet the tother about the face.

1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 37 Prattily, softly.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prattily, softly, delicately. ‘Gang prattily, er thou'lt wacken 't barn’.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) A tap runs pratly when it lets out only a small stream in proportion to its size.

c. Politely, nicely; in a well-behaved manner. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adverb]

wellOE

prettilyc1613

c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 8 Your daughter and myn..speaketh prattely and french and hath near hand learned her sawter.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xv. 92 So prettily loth to speak till spoken to.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 237 I mean to be so prettily behaved, as to become the darling of all the old, sober, stupid folks in the kingdom.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. i. 12 I hope you mean to behave prettily to her, missy, and not show your airs.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx If you had only asked me prettily.

1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) In nursery language children were told to eat, ask, behave prettily.

2005 Mirror (Scotland) (Nexis) 24 May 6 Smile fetchingly and ask prettily ‘Mum, would you mind?’.

3. Considerably, very; quite, rather; fairly, moderately. Cf. pretty adv. 1a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

welleOE

not a little1485

prettily1533

sensibly1563

pretty1565

considerably1673

considerablea1706

significantly1747

respectably1770

purty1797

appreciably1815

pooty1825

right smart1859

helder1883

sumfin1918

sumptin1924

sumthin1925

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. Pref. sig. Bb^v Tyndale the captayne of our Englyshe heretyques..was taken for full pretyly lerned to.

?1541 M. Coverdale Confut. Standish sig. iiv Ye can prately well graunt to a thing in one place, and denie the same in another.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 201 Hauing now recouerd his strength pretily well.

1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. sig. B3^v By their education pretily well Principled.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII lxxv. 42 I..had an ear that served me prettily.

1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 458 The English money used to be spent prettily in that country.

1852 C. M. Yonge Two Guardians iv. 58 Prettily different is this place from home... They are so ignorant.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxvii. 246 I've had my eye on him for some time. He shall be prettily pumped upon.

2000 Re: I'll be Brave :( in alt.fifty-plus.friends (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Mar. I'm sure you'll cope prettily well, Janie.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prettily
释义	prettilyadv. Brit. /ˈprɪtᵻli/, U.S. /ˈprɪdᵻli/ Forms: late Middle English pratily, late Middle English pratyly, late Middle English pratylych, late Middle English 1600s–1700s prattily, late Middle English–1500s prately, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s prattely, 1500s pretely, 1500s pretilie, 1500s pretilye, 1500s prettely, 1500s pretyly, 1500s–1600s pretelie, 1500s–1700s pretily, 1500s– prettily, 1600s prettilie, 1600s prettylie; English regional (northern) 1800s prattily, 1800s prattley, 1800s prattly, 1800s– pratly; Scottish pre-1700 prattelie, pre-1700 prattilie, pre-1700 pretely, pre-1700 pretilie, pre-1700 pretily, pre-1700 prettelie, pre-1700 prettilie, pre-1700 prettillie, pre-1700 1700s– prettily. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pretty adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < pretty adj. + -ly suffix². 1. a. In a cunning or clever manner; ingeniously, skilfully, neatly. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adverb] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense sweet1338 prettilyc1450 sweetly1576 pretty1617 the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] > prettily prettilyc1450 dollishly1892 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously craftilyeOE wiselya1000 guisily13.. quaintc1300 quaintlyc1300 subtly1340 cunningly?a1400 subtilelyc1405 subtilelyc1405 prettilyc1450 industriouslyc1487 ingeniously1548 clerkly1594 ambidextrously1657 c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 16 (MED) What that she doth is doon so pratily That noon it may amenden hardily. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xi. 282 They shoved theym so prately agenste a pyller of marbell stone that their eyen lepte oute of theyr hedes. ?a1500 Court of Love (Trin. Cambr. R.3.19) l. 420 in K. Forni Chaucerian Apocrypha (2005) Though thow seest a fawte right at thyne ye, Excuse it blive and glose it pretily. 1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 881 They were driven to give ground; and so prettily retired, defending the Consull the best they could. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper B j You can shift of an haynous accusation very pretily. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 59 Lysander riddles very prettily . View more context for this quotation 1667 S. Pepys Diary 23 Sept. (1974) VIII. 446 I find how prettily this cunning Lord can be partial and dissemble it in this case. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. Observ. 81 Chapman..very prettily wheedles his Reader into this Opinion by a most gallant Imagination. 1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville I. 237 It is pretily enough contrived, and one of the great advantages of society, that one's time..is to be sacrifised, from a false politeness to every idle creature. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. v. 103 Master Thurstan will be prettily taken in when I die, and he finds all his extra wage left back to him. 1867 Chess Player's Mag. New Ser. 3 45 The self-mate, though not difficult, is very prettily conceived. 1889 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 11 Dec. 2/5 All the horses got away very prettily and Prince Beauclerk soon pulled away from the crowd. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) v. 191 It was prettily devised of Aesop that the fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel and said, what a dust do I raise. †b. With reference to speech, writing, etc.: pointedly, aptly, wittily; eloquently. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adverb] > aptly aptlya1529 prettily1576 felicitously1828 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 243 This Archebishop..suffered the King to holde his stirup twise in one day in Normandie, but in Prato Proditorum, as Mathewe Parise very pretely writeth it. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ii. 18 When he [sc. Socrates] was laughed to scorne of Alcibiades for so doing, he answered him verie pretily. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 16 Which a Poet..expressed thus very briefly, & for that age pretily. 1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 20 We Men of wit condole for our deceased Brother in Marriage, as much as for one dead in earnest: I think that was prettily said of me, ha Harcourt? 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. i. 11 It is prettily remarked by an ancient historian..that the effusion of blood was the only circumstance which distinguished a field of battle from a field of exercise. 1783 S. Johnson Let. 3 Sept. (1994) IV. 194 Your story is a very pretty story and is very prettily narrated. 2. a. Attractively, charmingly; in a pleasing or appealing manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adverb] likinglya1387 graciouslyc1400 prettilyc1450 alluringly1561 gracefully1583 attractively1604 takingly1607 charmingly1611 enchantinglya1616 winningly1663 engagingly1694 winsomely17.. enticingly1720 attractingly1753 prepossessingly1794 sweetly1840 temptingly1878 fetchingly1889 c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 115 (MED) The bewte she hath bi god alon, Hit stelith lo an hert so pratily. a1475 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 271 A bok hym is browt..Pratylych I-wrout. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie sig. Uu.ii/2 Pretily or pleasantly spoken, lepide aut facete dictum. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 37 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or banke side. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year I. xx. 263 It looks prettily, but rewards the eye, as burning basons do, with intolerable circles of reflected fire. a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon (1684) v. iv. 46 That sweet Honey Lord kiss'd my hand e'en now, and he kissd it so prattily, that I have kiss'd it a thousand time, since. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 9 The Ax stroaks..on the Brick,..if they be streight and parallel one to another, look very prettily. 1794 J. C. Cross Apparition! ii. 24 I be prattily made and well put together. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 98 Eva said, ‘Topsy, you arrange flowers very prettily’. 1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 70 A prettily-worked holland blouse. 1955 Times 9 May 3/4 No Bach motet, no big madrigal..relieved a succession of prettily sung choral songs. 2005 Australian (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Arts section) 10 Mozart's String Quartet K.464 was prettily played but didn't engage the audience. b. Gently, softly, quietly. Now rare and English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adverb] > without harshness or gently lightlyeOE neshlyeOE fairOE neshc1175 softlyc1225 softa1325 hoolya1340 tenderlyc1385 soft and fair(ly)c1391 weakly1398 delicately?a1425 prettilyc1500 gently1533 gentle1548 breathingly1662 blandly1827 sparingly1863 piano1873 gauzily1903 creamily1948 c1500 Melusine (1895) 9 The kinge hyed hym, & helped to sette her on horsbak moche prately [Fr. doulcement]. 1533 T. More Apologye 93 b Wyth that worde putte the tone pretely backe with his hande, and all to buffet the tother about the face. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 37 Prattily, softly. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prattily, softly, delicately. ‘Gang prattily, er thou'lt wacken 't barn’. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) A tap runs pratly when it lets out only a small stream in proportion to its size. c. Politely, nicely; in a well-behaved manner. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adverb] wellOE prettilyc1613 c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 8 Your daughter and myn..speaketh prattely and french and hath near hand learned her sawter. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xv. 92 So prettily loth to speak till spoken to. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 237 I mean to be so prettily behaved, as to become the darling of all the old, sober, stupid folks in the kingdom. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. i. 12 I hope you mean to behave prettily to her, missy, and not show your airs. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx If you had only asked me prettily. 1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) In nursery language children were told to eat, ask, behave prettily. 2005 Mirror (Scotland) (Nexis) 24 May 6 Smile fetchingly and ask prettily ‘Mum, would you mind?’. 3. Considerably, very; quite, rather; fairly, moderately. Cf. pretty adv. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > to a considerable degree welleOE not a little1485 prettily1533 sensibly1563 pretty1565 considerably1673 considerablea1706 significantly1747 respectably1770 purty1797 appreciably1815 pooty1825 right smart1859 helder1883 sumfin1918 sumptin1924 sumthin1925 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. Pref. sig. Bb^v Tyndale the captayne of our Englyshe heretyques..was taken for full pretyly lerned to. ?1541 M. Coverdale Confut. Standish sig. iiv Ye can prately well graunt to a thing in one place, and denie the same in another. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 201 Hauing now recouerd his strength pretily well. 1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. sig. B3^v By their education pretily well Principled. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII lxxv. 42 I..had an ear that served me prettily. 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 458 The English money used to be spent prettily in that country. 1852 C. M. Yonge Two Guardians iv. 58 Prettily different is this place from home... They are so ignorant. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxvii. 246 I've had my eye on him for some time. He shall be prettily pumped upon. 2000 Re: I'll be Brave :( in alt.fifty-plus.friends (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Mar. I'm sure you'll cope prettily well, Janie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1450
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