muchly
English
Adverb
muchly (not comparable)
- (colloquial) very much, very
- 1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2:
- Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253:
- Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.
Usage notes
- Often regarded as a misconstruction of adverbial much.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “muchly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Common Errors in English: Muchly
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