Very; extremely; confoundedly. I know not the origin of this New England word.
Skeered, says he, sarves him right; he might have known how to feel for other folks, and not funkify them so peskily.--Sam Slick in England.
I'm peskily sorry about that mare.--Ibid. ch. 08.
The Post Office accounts were the next bother; and they puzzled all on us peskily.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 139.