sickerly

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adverb

Certainly.

OriginMiddle English sikerly →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adverb
  1. dialectalobsoleteCertainly.

    My gentle bleed[…]Right sickerly does plead.

    1742, Robert Forbes, Ajax His Speech to the Grecian Knabs
    2 more examples

    My Lord sickerly, / Quoth he, faine would I your pleasure fulfill.

    1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe

    Awa awaw, sayn yeou this sickerly, or done you but jaum me?

    1634, Richard Brome, Thomas Heywood, The Late Lancashire Witches

Origin

  1. Middle Englishsikerly
  2. Englishsickerly

From Middle English sikerly; equivalent to sicker + -ly.

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APA

sickerly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sickerly

MLA

“sickerly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sickerly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sickerly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sickerly.

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