sholy
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English
Adverb
sholy (comparative more sholy, superlative most sholy)
- Pronunciation spelling of surely, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- 1940, William Faulkner, The Hamlet , London: Chatto & Windus, published 1979, →ISBN, book 4 (The Peasants), page 250:
- But I'd sholy like to know just exactly who I was giving my money to. Seems like Eck here would tell you.
References
- “sholy, adv. & int.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
