beneshiply

English

Alternative forms

• benshiply

Etymology

From beneship +‎ -ly.

Adverb

beneshiply (comparative more beneshiply, superlative most beneshiply)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Excellently
   • (Can we date this quote?), x, "O per se O", "The Canting Song", quoted in 2013, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts: : Previously published 1930 and 1965 (Routledge, →ISBN), edited by A. V. Judges, page 381:

     The doxy dell can cut bene whids, And wap well for a win, And prig and cloy so beneshiply, All the dewse-a-vill within.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:excellently