Airily vs Airly - What's the difference?
airily | airly |
(dialectal) early
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The winter had set in airly , and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1887, author=Homer Greene, title=Burnham Breaker, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Ye're up airly the mornin'. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Nellie L. McClung, title=Purple Springs, chapter=, edition=
, passage="They're comin' airly ," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin' outside any longer." }}
As adverbs the difference between airily and airly
is that airily is in an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly while airly is early.airly
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