sholy
English
editAdverb
editsholy (comparative more sholy, superlative most sholy)
- Pronunciation spelling of surely, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- 1940, William Faulkner, The Hamlet […], London: Chatto & Windus, published 1979, →ISBN, book 4 (The Peasants), page 250:
- But I'd sholy like to know just exactly who I was giving my money to. Seems like Eck here would tell you.
References
edit- “sholy, adv. & int.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.