gradely
/ˈɡreɪdli
/adjective Northern English
Fine, decent, or respectable: she were a gradely lass...
- But our neighbours, who were gradely folk, took it all in good part.
- Don't call me Mr Hudson, he were me Dad and a gradely bloke.
Origin
Middle English (originally in the sense 'excellent, noble'): from Old Norse greithligr, from greithr 'ready'.
- fair-minded
- fair-mindedly
- fair-mindedness
- fair name
- fairness
- fairness doctrine
- fairness opinion
- fair (or square or straight) dinkum
- fair play
- fair play to someone
- fair rent
- fair seeming
- fair's fair
- fair-shaped
- fair share
- fair-size
- fair-sized
- fairskin
- fair-skinned
- fair speaking
- fair-spoken
- fair-tongued
- fair-top boot
- fair trade
- fair-trade agreement