dreckly

The Cornish use the word 'dreckly' to mean soon (or 'directly', I guess).

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The Cornish use the word 'dreckly' to mean soon (or 'directly', I guess).

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And then after the cotton was ginned they took it to the press and you could hear that screw go z-m-m-m and dreckly that 'block and tickle' come down.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7

Wife, she was cryin 'by this time, an' parson, he claired his th'oat an 'coughed, an' then he commenced walkin 'up an' down, an 'dreckly he stopped, an' says he, speakin 'mighty reverential an' serious:

Short Stories for English Courses

Why, dreckly as they let it be nown as they was a willin to make room in their bewtifool Galery for any of the finest picters in the hole country as peepel was wantin to send there, jest to let the world no as they'd got 'em, and that they wos considered good enuff by the

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892

Medical Journal has always to be brought to him dreckly it comes.

The Philanderer

We doan't knaw 'bout oal these things, sur, but anyhow, Maaster Roger was missin 'dreckly after his father's funerl, and hev never bin seed alive since.

Roger Trewinion

"What we do we must do dreckly, Maaster Jasper," he said; "they be watchin 'for we."

The Birthright

'Ogre's wife, I'll eat _you_, if you don't get me somefin to eat too-dreckly.'

Hoodie

"I means to tear it right off dreckly," said the boy, grinning.

Young Robin Hood