Pronunciations
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/ˈhɛ.li/
Adjective
Hellish, infernal.
Usage- Obsolete
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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.
Noun
Synonym of hell.
Usage- mildly
- Slang
- Vulgar
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