woundy adv.
general intensifier, very, extremely; also as adj., very great.
Witch of Edmonton II i: ’Tis woundy cold sure. | ||
London Spy XI 257: They are woundy Silent. | ||
‘Roger in Amaze’ Wit’s Cabinet 149: Most woundily pleas’d, I up and down the vair did range. | ||
Hudibras Redivivus II:2 21: So to a Feast should I invite ye, / You’d stuff your Guts, and cry Goodbwi’t’ye. But hold a little, why so fast? / Methinks you’re all in woundy haste. | ||
Tumble-Down Dick 12: Odso! methinks ’tis woundy light [...] Its woundy hot. | ||
Scots Mag. 5 Sept. 27/1: The day, quo’ Tom, grows woundy hot. | ||
Witchcraft of Love 29: What an if her Father should chop up the Wedding to Day, for he likes me woundily. | ||
Peregrine Pickle (1964) 414: Me thinks, (said I) when I saw them in such a woundy pother to be gone, oddsheartikins! this must be some Lundon prentice running away with his measter’s daughter. | ||
Midas III ii: He is so plump, / And makes such a woundy racket. | ||
Revenge II i: Ah! there it is! why I was woundy stupid! | ||
Hampshire Chron. 25 Oct. 4/3: Some woundy large cannon were placed in their flanks. | ||
Bath Chron. 26 Feb. Johnson gave Ryan some woundy hard blows: . | ||
Honest Fellow 81: Whilst John’s odd face and sly grimace, / Confest ’twas woundy pleasing. | ||
Heir at Law III iv: Woundily, indeed! | ||
Works (1801) V 102: No woundy fuss was made ’Bout dress amongst the men in trade. | ‘Royal Visit to Exeter’||
Kentish Gaz. 31 Oct. 2/1: A General once in a woundy brawl was sent out to take a trip, With horses and soldiers, and cannon and all. | ||
‘West-Country Bumpkin’s Description’ Universal Songster I 231: I thought ’twas a shameful thing / To serve a poor babe such a woundy trick. | ||
Vulgarities of Speech Corrected n.p.: Woundily Very. | ||
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 23 Feb. 2/4: The few members of the society who happened to be electors were [...] ‘woundy savage’ at being utterly despised and rejected. | ||
North. Liberator (Tyne & Wear) 26 Jan. 3/4: My Lord of Brougham seems woundily distempered. | ||
‘Gloucestershire Bumpkin’ Lover’s Harmony No. 18 138: I thought it a shameful thing / For to serve the poor babe such a woundey trick. | ||
Fife Herald 15 July 3/2: He’ll get woundy thin, poor cretur. | ||
Western Times 24 Apr. 5/6: Purtection may be woundy nice, but then I allus zay [etc.]. | ||
Quite Alone III 131: Have my great-coat, miss? It’s woundy cold. | ||
‘Comical Incidentsy’ Laughing Songster 60: I thought that such a woundy droll thing. | ||
Westmorland Gaz. 12 Apr. 2/1: But the stout smith Jock with his old mother’s crook / He gave him a woundy bang. | ||
Hull Dly Mail 13 June 4/2: The success of the international Horse Show [...] is a woundy smack in the eye for those who maintain the horse has had its day . |