In a frightened or scared manner; with fear or alarm (Scottish and Northern English dialect).
From fleyed (frightened) + -ly (adverbial suffix). This is a dialectal formation showing how regional English can build adverbs from emotional states.
This ultra-rare adverb is like a linguistic fossil—it shows how old English speakers could turn almost any word into an adverb, creating expressions we've mostly abandoned!
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