ackshully

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A form of actually — In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adverbackshully (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of actually.

    But on a winding road it wasn't no manner o'good, I declare, They was onto, an'over you, before ackshully you knew they was there.

    1914, Charles G. Harper, The Kentish Coast, Good Press, page 129
    2 more examples

    But on a What does he do, but goes and buys a washin'-machine and sends it home, and ackshully the lite left me eyes when he tould me that with it[…]

    1874 December 26, “Corney Cluskey's Calamities”, in The Shamrock, volume 12, number 428, Irish National Newspaper and Publishing Company, Limited, page 195

    It was, therefore, a relief when Erin almost light-heartedly announced: “I don't ackshully know the way from here to Marksty-thing-something, er, where is it you ackshully live?”

    2020, George Lambelle, Call Me Stranger, Balboa Press UK, →ISBN, page 82
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APA

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Chicago

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