Meanings
adverbmuchly (not comparable)
- colloquialnot comparableVery much, very.
Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 2533 more examples
Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.
1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.
1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, →OCLC, page 104I've been thinking muchly about this in the past few weeks while sitting on the benches watching various fashion weeks.
2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
- Proto-Germanic*mikilaz
- Proto-West Germanic*mikil
- Old Englishmiċel
- Middle Englishmuchel
- Middle Englishmuche
- Englishmuch
- Englishmuchly
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APA
muchly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muchly
MLA
“muchly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muchly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muchly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muchly.
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