winterly
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wynturlych, from Old English winterlice; equivalent to winter + -ly.[1]
Adjective edit
winterly (comparative more winterly, superlative most winterly)
- Of or relating to winter.
- Happening in winter.
- 1913, Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem:
- One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way.
- Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.
- 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:
- If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May.
Synonyms edit
- (of or relating to winter): winter
- (happening in winter): winter
- (characteristic of winter): winterish, wintery/wintry, hiemal
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ “winterly”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.: “ORIGIN OF WINTERLY before 1000; Old English winterlīc”