freshly

adverbattested in dialogue

//ˈfɹɛʃli//

Recently, newly.

adverb

1
Recently, newly.
The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.
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.
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).
He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.
2
In a rude or impertinent manner.

Etymology

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

Forms

comparative: more freshly
superlative: most freshly

fresh · Newly produced or obtained; recent.Fresh · A surname from German.freshen · To become fresh. To be refreshed.

freshly · Recently, newly.

freshman · a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an…fret · To chafe or irritate; to worry.FRET · Förster resonance energy transfer

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