Meanings
adverbfewly (comparative more fewly, superlative most fewly)
comparative more fewly · superlative most fewly
- nonstandardrarechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishIn small numbers.
"Yes," said Bruno; "but they went so slowly and so fewly, I didn't care to count them."
1893, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Matilda Jane”, in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 78
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