hooly
Americanadjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of hooly
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English holy, hulie, hully; apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse hōfligr “moderate,” hōfliga “moderately”
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Perhaps he was the abbot whom Chaucer mocked in his Prioress's Tale for his false piety over a murder: This abbot, which that was an hooly man, As monkes been, or elles oghte be.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an abstract critic, allow me to say, "Reinhardt's No. 15 leely en hooly pic o langly loo la lay."
From Time Magazine Archive
O hooly, hooly rose she up, To the place where he was lying, And when she drew the curtain by: "Young man, I think you're dying."
From Types of Children's Literature by Walter Barnes
O hooly, hooly rose she up, To the place where he was lying, And when she drew the curtain by, ‘Young man, I think you’re dying.’
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Frank Sidgwick
O gin my wife wad dress hooly and fairly!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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