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Slippy vs Slippily - What's the difference?

slippy | slippily |

As an adjective slippy

is slippery.

As an adverb slippily is

in a slippy manner.

slippy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Slippery.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
  • (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:Well, come on then, let's look slippy .

    • slippily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a slippy manner.
  • * 1964 , Arthur John Arberry, Aspects of Islamic civilization, as depicted in the original texts
    • Jumping out slippily by the way the water came in, he was soon off and away.