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Meaning of gradely in English:

gradely

Pronunciation /ˈɡreɪdli/

adjective

Northern English

  • Fine, 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’.