DRYLY

laconically, dryly, drily

(adverb) in a dry laconic manner; “‘I know that’, he said dryly”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

dryly (comparative more dryly, superlative most dryly)

In a dry manner.

Source: Wiktionary


Dry"ly, adv.

Definition: In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

19 June 2025

ROOTS

(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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