felly

From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felġe, dative of felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare East Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).

• felloe
• fellick, felk (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛli/
• Hyphenation: fel‧ly

felly (plural fellies)

1. The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
   • 1602, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:

     all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.

From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlli/, /ˈfɛli/

felly (comparative more felly, superlative most felly)

1. (now rare) Fiercely, harshly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.

• (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɬɨ̞/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɬɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɬi/

felly

1. so, thus