What it means
Means I'll do it eventually, just not on your timetable. It's a Cornish twist on directly, where the word somehow lost all sense of hurry and gained a big shrug. Depending on the day, dreckly might be five minutes, tomorrow, or sometime after the next cuppa. Use it when you're promising action without promising a deadline, and everyone knows it.
Usage examples
"When you going to mend that gate, my lover? Been hanging off the hinge all week. Alright, dreckly. I’ll sort 'ee after I’ve had me pasty and a cuppa."
"I will have the kitchen tap sorted dreckly, said my dad in Newquay last March, here we are in June and the leak has now spread to the floor underneath, but he is in no rush whatsoever."
"Wasson, will you call your mother back about Sunday lunch in St Austell, she rang at noon. Yeah dreckly, after the football match, after the gardening, after the kettle, before the pasty."
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