freshly

English

Etymology

From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛʃli/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adverb

freshly (comparative more freshly, superlative most freshly)

  1. Recently, newly.
    The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.
    • 2015 July 6, “Diagnosis of Morquio Syndrome in Dried Blood Spots Based on a New MRM-MS Assay”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C).
    • 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54:
      He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.
  2. (uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.

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