• Featherily

    Origin

    feathery + -ly

    Full definition of featherily

    Adverb

    featherily

    1. in a feathery manner
      • 1960, Janice Holt Giles, Johnny Osage‎Twice it rained in the night, but it was a gentle rain, whimpering featherily on the skin coverings of the conical lodges.
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