helly
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of helly
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(obsolete)Hellish, infernal.
“These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […].”
“Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.”
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adj
-
(obsolete)Hellish, infernal.
“These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […].”
“Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.”
name
- (countable, uncountable)A surname from German, notably held by Eduard Helly.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.
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