bearly

English edit

From bear +‎ -ly. Compare bearlike.

bearly (comparative more bearly, superlative most bearly)

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.
Misspelling of barely.
- 1930, Hearst's international combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 89:
  He was going to be a bearly bear. With a bearly mate.
- 1955, Agnes L. McCarthy, James Kenner Agnew, Prose and poetry for appreciation:
  Past two years old Keg was now, a big and very bearly bear, and with the first tocsin of fall in the air he'd wandered off toward Sugar-loaf, answering the call of his kind.
Misspelling of burly.
- 2010, Clydal Vania, On the Flight to Nowhere:
  All acting like nothing even happened at all. (Then, a half hour later) Boom! BOOOM!! (There's a poundin down at the door) As Jeanie goes ta answer it, as im in the kitchen getting cereal. As another Big bearly Man Comes barging in.