Fewly vs Felly - What's the difference?
fewly | felly |
(rare, nonstandard) In small numbers.
* 1894 , Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno
The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
* 1602 , , act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
* 1922 , :
Fiercely, harshly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
As adverbs the difference between fewly and felly
is that fewly is in small numbers while felly is fiercely, harshly.As a noun felly is
the outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.fewly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- "Yes," said Bruno; "but they went so slowly and so fewly , I didn't care to count them ."
Usage notes
* This word is most commonly an error made by non-native speakers.felly
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) fely, from (etyl) felge, dative of felg, from (etyl) 'to creep, crawl').Noun
(fellies)- all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele [...].
- The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
Alternative forms
* felloeEtymology 2
From .Adverb
(en adverb)- Ioues'' dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming ''Phlegeton does not so felly roste.