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Helly vs Felly - What's the difference?

helly | felly |

As an adjective helly

is hellish, infernal.

As a noun felly is

the outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.

As an adverb felly is

fiercely, harshly.

helly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hellish, infernal.
  • * 1603', Samuel Harsnet, ''A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures'', quoted in '''2013 in ''Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (ISBN 0750952822):
    • These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, .
  • * 1892 , Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus , page 138:
    • Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.

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    felly

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) fely, from (etyl) felge, dative of felg, from (etyl) 'to creep, crawl').

    Noun

    (fellies)
  • The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
  • * 1602 , , act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
    • all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele [...].
  • * 1922 , :
    • The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.

    Alternative forms

    * felloe

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Fiercely, harshly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • Ioues'' dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming ''Phlegeton does not so felly roste.
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