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Hooly

Meaning

Adj

Holy.

Adv

In Scottish English:
Wholly; all the way.
1840, Joanna Baillie, Hooly and Fairly, Fugitive Verses, 1851, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, 2nd Edition,
819,
In Scottish English:
Softly; carefully.

Name

Obsolete form of Holi (“Hindu festival”).
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