Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exceedingly; very.
- Excessive.
- Causing or inflicting wounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Excessively; extremely.
- adjective obsolete Excessive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic
very ,extremely ,excessively - adjective archaic very
great ,extreme ,excessive - adjective rare, figuratively
Causing wounds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sir Wilfrid pined like a true servant to be in company of the good champion, alongside of whom he had shivered so many lances, and dealt such woundy blows of sword and battle-axe on the plains of
Burlesques 2006
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Methinks, said I, when I saw them in such a woundy pother to be gone, oddsheartlikins! this must be some London ‘prentice running away with his measter’s daughter, as sure as
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He was a “woundy ugly customer in a wax, she could tell me.”
Uncle Silas 2003
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I would, replied the sheepmonger, take thee such a woundy cut on this spectacle-bearing lug of thine with my trusty bilbo as would smite thee dead as a herring.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is a woundy price, cried Panurge; in our country I could have five, nay six, for the money; see that you do not overreach me, master.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is a woundy price, cried Panurge; in our country I could have five, nay six, for the money; see that you do not overreach me, master.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I would, replied the sheepmonger, take thee such a woundy cut on this spectacle-bearing lug of thine with my trusty bilbo as would smite thee dead as a herring.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The next thing that happens is that Mark Lacklander (who has been engaged in tennis and, one supposes, rather solemn dalliance with that charming girl Rose Cartarette) leaves this house round about the time Mrs. Cartarette returns to it and goes down to the bottom bridge, where he does not find a woundy great trout and is certain that there was no trout to find.
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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Now Lady Lacklander saw a woundy great trout lying on the bridge where, according to Lady L.,
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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This, if passed, would be a woundy blow to the Harley mines; also to that railway whereof Mr. Harley was a director, since it hauled the Harley coal to the seaboard.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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