Reely vs Eely - What's the difference?
reely | eely |
* {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Roughing It, Part 6., chapter=, edition=
, passage=But mind you, there ain't anything ever reely lost; everything that people can't understand and don't see the reason of does good if you only hold on and give it a fair shake; Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=W. W. Jacobs, title=More Cargoes, chapter=, edition=
, passage="'Shame,' ses most of 'em; an' I reely b'leeve they'd worked theirselves up to that pitch they'd ha' felt disappointed if the skipper had been saved. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=Harry Leon Wilson, title=The Lions of the Lord, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered--one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jest gritted into you for the consolation of Israel. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Meredith, title=The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Caroline Lockhart, title='Me-Smith', chapter=, edition=
, passage=If he ever reely hit you with that fist of his'n, it ud sink in up to the elbow. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=The History of Samuel Titmarsh, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Both your son and your daughter-in-law, ma'am, are of that uncommon sort; they are, now, reely , ma'am." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), title=Action Front, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Private Flannigan looked over his shoulder at him, "Mong capitaine," he said, "you ought, you reely ought, to ring up your telephone; turn the handle round an' say something." " }}
* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Francis Barton Fox, title=The Heart of Arethusa, chapter=, edition=
, passage="She ain't seen him for more'n a month reely , but I reckon it does seem 'most a year to her." }}
Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery
* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=George Manville Fenn, title=Menhardoc, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=George Manville Fenn, title=The Ocean Cat's Paw, chapter=, edition=
, passage=That was a great long eely thing; but Joe Cross here says this was more like a great turtle, with flippers and a long neck, and a head like a snake." }}
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=August 13, author=Neil Tesser, title=Lou Donaldson Quartet with Dr. Lonnie Smith, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Veteran alto saxist Lou Donaldson faces the audience with a raised eyebrow and a toothy grin, and his horn's high-pitched, eely timbre--which still has plenty of the grease that made him a soul-jazz hero in the 60s and 70s--complements his squeaky voice. }}
As an adverb reely
is eye dialect of lang=en.As an adjective eely is
resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.reely
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