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- Middle English · inherited frombrathly
- English todaybrathly
From Middle English brathly, brothly, braithly, equivalent to brath + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic bráðleg (“quickly, soon”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Hastily; violently; fiercely; with fury. Full definition →