rawly

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English

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Etymology

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From raw +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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rawly (comparative more rawly, superlative most rawly)

  1. In a raw manner.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 443:
      She was pretty and her low-cut baju showed a delicious expanse of warm milky-brown neck. The boys teased her, guffawing rawly.
    • 2007 June 9, Roslyn Sulcas, “Spanish Guitars, Fast Footwork, Everything but the Cafe”, in New York Times[1]:
      Noche Flamenca, which returned to Theater 80 in the East Village last week for its summer season, does a pretty good job of all this even if its new program, “Aldaba,” is heavily weighted toward the rawly emotional side of flamenco, with mixed results.

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