stalely

stale +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪl.li/

stalely (comparative more stalely, superlative most stalely)

1. In a stale manner.
2. (obsolete) Of old; long since.
   • 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Tut, all your promis'd mountains, And seas, I am so stalely acquainted with

• (of old): of yore, way back; see also Thesaurus:long ago

• “stalely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• Saltley, yells at