Formerly also jolly and ——; cf. Sc. braw and ——, gay and ——; in braw and able, braw and soon, it is gay and late.

With intensifying (usually slang) adverb or adjective prefixed so as to form a compound emphatic adverb, as bloody well, damn well, etc.

(a) hang of a: an Australian and New Zealand intensive phrase, variously spelt (hangava, hanguva, etc., and in altered forms, e.g. hangashun), used…