dreckly
advEtymology Local/dialectal phonetic spelling of direct + -ly.
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US directly
- "You know, pretty quick, soon — dreckly!" She said in frustration1999, Janice Tate, Ken Tate, Good Old Days Remembers the Little Country Schoolhouse, page 45:
- I'll be over there dreckly ' '; which could mean in the next hour or two , or "I'll be down in a bit". It's a real Cornish thing.2006, Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Voices of a Nation, page 13: