reelyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

reely (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of really.
   • 1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It, Part 6.‎^[1]:

     But mind you, there ain't anything ever reely lost; everything that people can't understand and don't see the reason of does good if you only hold on and give it a fair shake; Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.

   • 1897, W. W. Jacobs, More Cargoes‎^[2]:

     "'Shame,' ses most of 'em; an' I reely b'leeve they'd worked theirselves up to that pitch they'd ha' felt disappointed if the skipper had been saved.

   • 1903, Harry Leon Wilson, The Lions of the Lord‎^[3]:

     "Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered--one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jest gritted into you for the consolation of Israel.

   • 1905, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete‎^[4]:

     And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one.

   • 1911, Caroline Lockhart, Me-Smith‎^[5]:

     If he ever reely hit you with that fist of his'n, it ud sink in up to the elbow.

   • 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh‎^[6]:

     Both your son and your daughter-in-law, ma'am, are of that uncommon sort; they are, now, reely, ma'am."

   • 1916, Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), Action Front‎^[7]:

     Private Flannigan looked over his shoulder at him, "Mong capitaine," he said, "you ought, you reely ought, to ring up your telephone; turn the handle round an' say something." "

   • 1918, Francis Barton Fox, The Heart of Arethusa‎^[8]:

     "She ain't seen him for more'n a month reely, but I reckon it does seem 'most a year to her."