Smally vs Smallie - What's the difference?
smally | smallie |
(rare) In a small way.
* 1890 , HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 28, author=Richard Ford, title=The Noise Is Killing Me, work=New York Times
, passage=Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself. }}
As an adverb smally
is in a small way.As a noun smallie is
{{cx|fishing|informal|lang=en}} smallmouth bass.smally
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...
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