helly — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Hellish, infernal.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Sinonimi

   Hadeanstygian

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Sostantivo

1. Synonym of hell.

   Uso

   • mildly
   • gergo
   • volgare

   Parole correlate

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