airly

comparative airlier · superlative airliest

1. dialectalearly

   Ye're up airly the mornin'.

   1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker

   2 more examples

   The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out.

   1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes

   "They're comin' airly," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin' outside any longer."

   1921, Nellie L. McClung, Purple Springs

1. A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.