Helly

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Hellish, infernal. obsolete

    "These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […]."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German, notably held by Eduard Helly. countable, uncountable

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"These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […]."

Etymology

From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.

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