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roupily

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From roupy + -ly.

  1. In a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.

    Afterwards he went home, wrote to Jenny Patterson and 'sang a lot in spite of the cold. Very roupily.'

    Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter. The bridegroom might have stepped over the wall to the wedding chamber or walked […]