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busily

[biz-uh-lee]

bus·i·ly

[biz-uh-lee]
adverb
in a busy manner; actively.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English bisiliche. See busy, -ly

non·bus·i·ly, adverb
o·ver·bus·i·ly, adverb
su·per·bus·i·ly, adverb
un·bus·i·ly, adverb
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Busily is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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busily (ˈbɪzɪlɪ)
 
adv
in a busy manner; industriously

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