winterly

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English wynturlych, from Old English winterlice; equivalent to winter +‎ -ly.[1]

Adjective

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winterly (comparative more winterly, superlative most winterly)

  1. Of or relating to winter.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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References

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  1. ^ winterly”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present:ORIGIN OF WINTERLY before 1000; Old English winterlīc