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Mr. Tom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Feel badly VS Feel bad

Hi

Does the difference between feel badly and feel bad exist something like this?

Feel badly (related to health like feel well) 
He felt badly after eating 4 burgers.

Feel bad (related to emotions like feel good)
I felt bad after screaming at her in front of others.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Feeling badly means dysesthesia, a disorder of the sense of touch. Feeling bad means emotional or physical distress. "

— Deadrat

  • Feeling badly means dysesthesia, a disorder of the sense of touch.
  • Feeling bad means emotional or physical distress.
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Feeling badly means dysesthesia, a disorder of the sense of touch.
Feeling bad means emotional or physical distress.

They are more and more used interchangeably, possibly under the influence of the American colloquialism "feeling poorly."
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Mr. TomFeel badly
It is rather common in older literature, and still used today.

He stood about, restless and uneasy, for a while, glancing at the door, every now and then, hoping she would repent and come to find him. But she did not. Then he began to feel badly and fear that he was in the wrong. It was a hard struggle with him to make ne
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AlpheccaStarshe was in the wrong
AS, I'm going off on a tangent here but 'to be in the right/wrong' does seem to have given way to 'to be right/wrong'? Do people ever use these expressions these days?
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deadratThey are more and more used interchangeably, possibly under the influence of the American colloquialism "feeling poorly."
I am doubtful that "feeling poorly" is specifically American. Anyway, it is a familiar and natural expression to me, and I am English. I have always considered "poorly" a bona fide adjective meaning "unwell", so have no difficulties
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IvanhrDo people ever use these expressions these days?
I would hope so, but they are likely falling into disuse.
It's used in one of my favorite poems about 6 blind men debating over the physical nature of the elephant. (last stanza)

The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)

It was six men of Indostan
To learnin
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It's not. The OED records this as one of the usages contemporaneous with the American southern use, where is was characteristic until it infected the rest of the country in the 20th century.
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deadratThe OED records this as one of the usages contemporaneous with the American southern use, where is was characteristic until it infected the rest of the country in the 20th century.
If you have access, does it happen to give an earliest recorded use (in the adjectival sense) in Britain?
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Sure. "Access" here means the old fashioned kind -- opening the book.

The entry is marked "chiefly colloquial". I misread the date of the first example. It's from 1573 (Tusser, Husbandry) "Some cattle waxe faint and looke poorely and thin." The next example is from 1750, the date that Partridge cites for the American southern usage.
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deadratSure. "Access" here means the old fashioned kind -- opening the book.The entry is marked "chiefly colloquial". I misread the date of the first example. It's from 1573 (Tusser, Husbandry) "Some cattle waxe faint and looke poorely and thin." The next example is from 1750, the date that Partridge cites for the American southern usage.
OK, thanks for lookin
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