Angelly

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or resembling an angel; angellike; angelic. informal

    "Poor Grandy reached up too high and young for a floaty Eddie-hit lob, almost as high as to the angelly place, up he went, up and up and then down (him being no longer a young man but a creaky old one)."

Synonyms

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angelic

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"Poor Grandy reached up too high and young for a floaty Eddie-hit lob, almost as high as to the angelly place, up he went, up and up and then down (him being no longer a young man but a creaky old one)."

Etymology

From Middle English aungelly, angely, angelich, from Old English ænġellīċ, enġellīċ, enġlelīċ (“resembling an angel; angelic”), from Proto-West Germanic *angilalīk, equivalent to angel + -ly. Compare angely.

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