roupily
English
Etymology
roupy + -ly
Adverb
roupily (comparative more roupily, superlative most roupily)
- In a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.
- 1887, A Bernard Shaw, A. M. Gibbs, editor, Diary, →ISBN, page 293:
- Afterwards he went home, wrote to Jenny Patterson and 'sang a lot in spite of the cold. Very roupily.'
- 1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXI, in Bud: A Novel, Harper & Brothers, page 297:
- Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter. The bridegroom might have stepped over the wall to the wedding chamber or walked […]
- 1997, Richard Matheson, “Dance of the Dead”, in I Am Legend, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 213:
- A hand stroked once at Peggy's leg and it was the hand of Popeye, the sailor man, who muttered roupily, "Olive Oyl, you is my goil."
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