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語源

From scars (“scarce, stingy”) +‎ -ly (“-ly”, adverbial suffix); first attested in c. 1300.

発音

• IPA: /ˈskaːrsliː/, /ˈskarsliː/, /-lit͡ʃ(ə)/

名詞

scarsly (uncountable)

1. Barely, scarcely; by a small margin.
2. Minimally, sparingly; in a meagre quantity:
   1. Frugally, stingily; with frugality.
   2. Inadequately; in an insufficient quantity.
3. Moderately; with moderation or forbearance.

派生した語

• English: scarcely
• Middle Scots: scarcelie, scarslie, scarsly
  • Scots: scarcely

参照

• “scā̆rslī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “scarcely, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “scarsly, scairslie, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.