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Hotly vs Hooly - What's the difference?

hotly | hooly |

As adverbs the difference between hotly and hooly

is that hotly is with great amounts of heat while hooly is wholly; all the way.

As an adjective hooly is

holy.

hotly

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • With great amounts of heat
  • In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently
  • hooly

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl).

    Adjective

    (hoolier)
  • (archaic) Holy.
  • * 1380 , (translator), Matthew: I'', ''Bible'', 1810, ''The New Testament , page 4,
  • But while he thougte these thingis: Lo the aungel of the Lord apperid in slep to him and seide Joseph the sone of David nyle thou drede to take Marie thy wyf, for that thing that is born in hir is of the hooly Goost.
  • * 14th c , '', 1987, ''The Riverside Chaucer , page 322,
  • Ful ofte tyme I rede that no man truste in his owene perfeccioun, but he be stronger than Sampson, and hoolier than David, and wiser than Salomon.

    Etymology 2

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (archaic, or, Scotland) Wholly; all the way.
  • * Henry VII, The Will of King Henry VII'', 1775, ''The Will of King Henry VII , page 6,
  • bee by our Executours hooly and perfitely fini?shed in every behalve, after the maner and fourme before rehersed, and futingly to that that is begoune and doon of theim.
  • * 1834 , Noctes Ambrosionæ No. LXIX'', ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 36, page 832,
  • This couldna hae lasted abune some ten minutes or less, when he began to wax weakish, and to stay rather langer at a time aneath than seemed consistent wi' prudence; sae I walked hooly doon to the bank, and cried on him to come oot, unless he was set on felo-de-se .
  • * 1840', , '''''Hooly and Fairly'', ''Fugitive Verses'', 1851, ''The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie , 2nd Edition, page 819,
  • O, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly!

    See also

    * hooley * hoolie ----