Definitions
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- adverb In a
watery manner.
Etymologies
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watery + -ly
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Examples
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If she had been able to talk much, she would have philosophized too, about the number and size of one's negative blessings -- all the things one hasn't got, all the very horrid things; why, there's no end to them once you begin to count up, she thought, waterily happy, and yet people grumble.
Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
mollusque commented on the word waterily
The waterlily lives waterily.
December 6, 2008
sionnach commented on the word waterily
A case could be made for saying that the waterlily lives waterlilily.
December 6, 2008