adjective
Northern EnglishFine, decent, or respectable.
‘she were a gradely lass’- ‘But our neighbours, who were gradely folk, took it all in good part.’
- ‘Don't call me Mr Hudson, he were me Dad and a gradely bloke.’
Origin
Middle English (originally in the sense ‘excellent, noble’): from Old Norse greithligr, from greithr ‘ready’.
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