waggishly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adv

"‘Doctor,’ says I, looking waggishly at him, ‘do you know ever a rhyme for Aristotle?’ ‘Port, if you plaise,’ says Mr. Goldsmith, laughing. And we had six rhymes for Aristotle before we left the coffee-house that evening."
""Who was ahead?" Leper smiled waggishly. "I couldn't see that....""

Etymology tree English waggish Middle English -ly English -ly English waggishly From waggish + -ly.

more waggishly (comparative) most waggishly (superlative)

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