deedily, adv. dial.
(ˈdiːdɪlɪ)
[f. deedy + -ly2.]
Actively, busily.
| 1813 Jane Austen Lett. II. 173 They are each [busy] about a rabbit net, and sit as deedily to it, side by side, as any two Uncle Franks could do. 1815 ― Emma (1870) II. x. 204 Frank Churchill..most deedily occupied about her spectacles. 1859 Burton in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 241 They row in ‘spirts’, applying deedily to their paddling. |