adv. Sc. [f. CADGY + -LY2.] Cheerfully, merrily; wantonly.

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a. 1724.  Gaberlunzie-Man, i. He … cadgily ranted and sang.

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a. 1774.  Fergusson, Poems (1789), II. 28. Whare cadgily they kiss the cap.

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1814.  [Mrs. Johnstone], Saxon & Gael, I. 108. ‘Hoot gudeman,’ she wad say, sae cadgily, ‘set a stout heart to a stay brae.’

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