Welshly

comparative more Welshly · superlative most Welshly

1. In a Welsh manner.

   They’d taught her to speak Welshly – she didn’t always, but she could.

   1999, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, Everything You Need, London: Vintage, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37

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   A sooner journey will be very combersome and jeopardous in regard of wayes, now deepe and dangerous, at all times steepe, craggy, and welshly teedious, wherefore (I trust) his Maᵗⁱᵉ will not denie soe old a servaunt such a winter suite, but be as God unto me, who desireth not yᵉ death of a sinner, neither will yᵉ Kinge my master desire yᵉ death of a most loyally faithful subject.

   1629 October 31, Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, quoting Theophilus Field, “Endymion Porter. 1586—1649.”, in Lives of the Lords Strangford, with Their Ancestors and Contemporaries through Ten Generations, London; Paris; New York, N.Y.: Cassell Petter & Galpin, published 1877, page 56

   The 3d named Jenkin James, a luſty young Fellow, about the ſame Heigth as Gaſtril, has a good freſh Complection, bred by trade a Taylor, but of late has been uſed to ſawing, talks very much Welſhly, and had on when he went away a coarſe red Coat and Waſtecoat, the Buttons and Button Holes of the Coat black

   1739 May 7, “Advertisements”, in The South-Carolina Gazette. […], number 286, Charleston, S.C., published 16 June 1739, page [2], column 2

   Shee, Q.C., appointed Judge of the Court of Record at Salford. Naturally Shee likes being courted. Pity it wasn’t in Wales, as then they would Welshly-and-grammatically speak of “appearing before Shee” as “appearing before Her.”

   1893 December 16, “A Feminine Triumph”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, number 2736, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], page 277, column 1