helly
Hellish, infernal.
Adjective
- 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...
- Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home. - 1892, Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against...
Synonyms: Hadean stygian Acherontic infernal hellish helly Plutonic Plutonian subtartarean Tartarean
Origin
From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.