Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Slow; cautious; careful.
  • Slowly; cautiously; softly; carefully; moderately. Also hoolie.

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Examples

  • Niece and (kunject a bit now!) our own familiars, Billyhealy, Bally-hooly and Bullyhowley, surprised in an indecorous position by the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society for bled-prusshers.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Yet spak this child, whan spreynd was hooly water,

    The Canterbury Tales 2006

  • And here foloweth the noble tale of the Sancgreal that called is the hooly vessel. '

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • Hardie, Tyler, who is his orderly, and the scout and I took them in because the rest of the column was lagging in the rear and the Lieutenant got bally hooly for it.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917

  • Tyler, who is his orderly, and the scout and I took them in because the rest of the column was lagging in the rear and the Lieutenant got bally hooly for it.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917

  • Hardie, Tyler, who is his orderly, and the scout and I took them in because the rest of the column was lagging in the rear and the Lieutenant got bally hooly for it.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Ca 'hooly, sirs, as ye, wad win an auld man's blessing!

    The Antiquary 1845

  • ` ` Just to look that their tackle does not graze on the face o 'the crag, and to let the chair down and draw it up hooly and fairly; --- we will halloo when we are ready.' '

    The Antiquary 1845

  • "Just to look that their tackle does not graze on the face o 'the crag, and to let the chair down and draw it up hooly and fairly; -- we will halloo when we are ready."

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Ca 'hooly, sirs, as ye, wad win an auld man's blessing!

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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