hooly

hooly

(ˈhuːlɪ)
adj
careful or gentle
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Redcar RNLI urged people to "respect the water", adding: "It's blowing a hooly out there at the moment." On the railways, Eastcoast Mainline operator LNER said it was "experiencing significant travel disruption" as a result of high winds and overhead damage at Durham and north of Berwick.
The Black Sheep on hooly, CC Food Company, LLC, Charles Kubi, Courtney Kubis, Charles Norman Pasquier, Allison B Pasquier, applied for a new spirits/br/wn rest lounge + license at 215 West Holly St., Suite H22, Bellingham.
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Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen (Early English Text Society 206).
o hooly hooly--gin ye be on your death bed lying so slowly aye as she put on a garland for the dying The poem is modernist in its compression of the ballad narrative into a complex of two images: one lover on the deathbed, the other wearing a funeral garland.
The final chapter introduces the Legendys of Hooly Wummen, an all-female hagiography by Osbern Bokenham, a fifteenth-century Augustinian friar and poet of the Chaucerian tradition who has received little critical attention.
Immediately preceding January's first equivalence of wedlock with paradise, a paraphrase of his prayer "to lyve under that hooly boond / With which that first God man and woman bond" (1261-62) alludes to the creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis.
"It was blowing a hooly and absolutely peeing it down but 22 degrees in the sea so it was perfect.