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English
Etymology
From much + -ly.
Adverb
muchly (not comparable)
- (colloquial) very much, very
1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2:Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.
1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, →OCLC, page 104:Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.
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- Often regarded as a misconstruction of adverbial much.
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