Feastly

Origin

From Middle English festlich, equivalent to feast + -ly. Cognate with Dutch feestelijk ("festive"), German festlich ("festive, solemn"), Danish and Swedish festlig ("festive, solemn").

Full definition of feastly

Adjective

1. Wont to or fond of festive occasions.
• 2003, Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "BabeÈ™-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history:Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
• 1994, University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international:So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for ...