bodily

[Victor Steinbok]

OED has an adverb and an adjective entry for "bodily". I only checked
the adverb one because I thought this was what I was dealing with. The
first two lemmas deal with the characteristics of a body, the third is
as I stated earlier. I suspect, the existing adj. entry is closer to
"bodily functions" than "bodily football players", but what do *I* know!

     VS-)

On 2/21/2011 10:15 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> bodily
> FWIW, _bodily_ occurs in the BE of Marshall, TX, as an adjective used
> of a particular body-type:
>
> "He's very _bodily_"
>
> It's used to described a phenotype like unto those of Vince Wilfork
> and William "The Refrigerator" Perry. A boy matching the "Husky"
> phenotype of the cartoon-character, Bobby Hill, is also described as
> "Bodily."
> --
> -Wilson

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