bigly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɪɡ.li/    美 /ˈbɪɡ.li/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Big league. humorous,nonstandard
    — It had been the very bestest of bigly weekends. Two rounds of golf at his very own course in Turnberry.
  2. Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing. Scotland
    — "And steek it weel, thy biglie bower, / And by the rood thee sain; / And tell thy bedes in haly guise, / Till this ae night is gane!"
副词 adv.
  1. In a big way, greatly; to a great extent, on a large scale. archaic
    — He looked at Mrs. Harling, who loomed bigly in the dull light.
  2. Strongly, with great force. archaic
    — Thesse men did much in order to publicke good, befor they spake biglie; bot done nothing since, saue that they haue drawin away considerable forces, raissed at wast charges for the publicke defence.
  3. In a blustering or boastful manner; haughtily, pompously. archaic
    — Would'ſt thou not rather chooſe a ſmall renown, / To be the mayor of ſome poor paltry town, / Bigly to look, and barbarouſly to ſpeak; / To pound falſe weights, and ſcanty meaſures break?

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English bygly, byggly, biggely. By surface analysis, big (“of great size, large (adjective); to a large extent, on a large scale; hard (adverb)”) + -ly.
词源 2
From Middle English bygly, biglie, byggly (“comfortable, stately, perfect”), borrowed from Old Norse byggiligr, byggviligr (“habitable”); equivalent to big (“to build, construct, live in, reside, dwell”) + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic byggilegur (“inhabitable, liveable”).
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