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  • adverb American Nonstandard spelling of throughly.

Etymologies

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thru +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 'I pro-pose f'r to thruly rayform this onhappy counthry,' he says.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • No place can be thruly injyeable whin ye have to take ye'ersilf along an 'pay rent f'r him whin ye get there.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Commander iv th 'lan' foorces -- a brave man but no match f'r ye'ers thruly.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • I remain, illusthrus cousin iv th 'risin' dawn, thruly ye'ers, Li.

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • His guns was choked with cotillyon favors an 'he did not reply at wanst, but whin he did, th' scene was thruly awful.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Learoyd shows him wan down the sthreet, an 'he sez,' How thruly Orientil!

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I cannot tell you, I niver could tell you, how I've valued your honest thrue love, for I know you have loved me honestly and thruly; but I've always been afraid to spake to you.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

  • You don't know, Martin -- at laist you didn't know all along, how well, how thruly I've loved you.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

  • They are thruly “educated idiots”, only too eager to send others’ kids to die or get maimed in their failed follies as they pontificated and judge from Above.

    Think Progress » Kristol On War Critics: ‘It’s So Irresponsible That They Can’t Be Quiet For Six Or Nine Months’ 2007

  • I cannot tell you, I niver could tell you, how I’ve valued your honest thrue love, for I know you have loved me honestly and thruly; but I’ve always been afraid to spake to you.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

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