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helly¹

  • /ˈhɛ.li/

Sounds like heli · Rhymes with -ɛli

Where it comes from

From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.

adjective more helly · most helly

  1. obsolete Hellish, infernal. These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […].

    Similar: Hadean, stygian, Acherontic, infernal, hellish, helly, Plutonic, Plutonian, subtartarean, Tartarean

helly²

  • /ˈhɛ.li/

Sounds like heli · Rhymes with -ɛli

Where it comes from

From hell + -y

noun more helly · most helly

  1. mildly, slang, vulgar Synonym of hell.

    Similar: hell

Helly³

proper noun Hellys

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from German, notably held by Eduard Helly.

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@misc{helly_2026,
  title = {helly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/helly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}