fewly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fewly (comparative more fewly, superlative most fewly)
- (rare, nonstandard, chiefly non-native speakers' English) In small numbers.
- 1893, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Matilda Jane”, in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 78:
- "Yes," said Bruno; "but they went so slowly and so fewly, I didn't care to count them."