A. adv. Very; extremely; excessively.
α. c. 1621. Rowley, etc., Witch Edmonton, II. i. ’Tis woundy cold, sure!
1660. Dial. betw. Tom & Dick, 1/2. And yet the Thief is woundy Close.
1695. Congreve, Love for L., IV. xiii. He was woundy angry when I gav ’n that wipe.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 79. His drinking much Flip, makes him woundy subject to the Vapours.
1774. C. Dibdin, Waterman, i. She keeps her a-bed woundy late of a morning.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. xv. His orders are woundy particular. Ibid. (1829), Jrnl., 19 April. We smoked and I became woundy sleepy.
1864. Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, II. 237. He was ‘a woundy ugly customer in a wax, she could tell me.’
β. 1718. Breval, Play is the Plot, II. i. 19. And the Jade’s a great Fortune, and waundy handsom too into the Bargain.
1791. O’Keefe, Mod. Antiques, I. (1792), 16. I was waundy hungry.
B. adj. Very great; extreme.
1681. Plain Dealing, Dial. Humphrey & Roger, 1/1. By the Mass, Hodge, thou say’st well, I have a woundy mind to do as thou say’st, but [etc.].
1702. Farquhar, Twin-Rivals, V. iii. You must know Sir, there is a Neighbour’s Daughter that I had a woundy Kindness for.
1718. Breval, Play is the Plot, II. i. 11. And has she such a waundy deal of Wit, do you say Sir?
1794. Godwin, Caleb Williams, 37. So he flew into a woundy passion and threatened to horsewhip me.
1836. T. Hook, G. Gurney, I. 213. You’ll kill a woundy sight on ’em, I think, at that distance.
1888. F. Cowper, Capt. Wight, 218. They castle folk be a woundy lot of gallants.
