solly - What does it mean?

Adjective

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* {{quote-book|year=1902|author=Herbert Allen Giles|title=China and the Chinese|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=Some years back, when I was leaving China for England with young children, their faithful Chinese nurse kept on repeating to the little ones the following remarkable sentence, "My too muchey solly' you go steamah; you no ' solly my." }}

* {{quote-book|year=1908|author=Ethel Turner|title=In the Mist of the Mountains|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage="I'm solly'," he said; then he seemed to realize more clearly that the lady's honour had to be vindicated before all these "girls," and he repeated more loudly and without being asked, "I'm velly ' solly ." }}