zacklyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zackly_adv%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_use'zackly | 'zactly, adv.
First published 1986; not fully revised

'zackly | 'zactlyadverb

regional or colloquial.
  1. 1886–
    1. 1886
      Zactly.., exactly.
      H. Baumann, Londinismen 239/1
    2. 1893
      Zackly.., negro for exactly.
      H. A. Shands, Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 69
    3. 1929
      ‘Yessuh,’ Simon agreed readily. ‘Hit struck me jes' 'zackly dat way.’
      W. Faulkner, Sartoris iii. vi. 232
    4. 1929
      ‘Isn't the sunshine lovely, Mr. Lewis?’ ‘Eh, ooh? 'Zactly!’
      H. Williamson, Beautiful Years (revised edition) vi. 63
    5. 1973
      Her dress was 'zactly like mine.
      American Speech 1970 vol. 45 77
    6. 1983
      Some people believed that Mr. Snow was, in West Country parlance ‘not quite zackly’... I think he was just simple in the true sense of the word.
      R. Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills xii. 91

'zackly, adv. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

'zackly, adv. was last modified in June 2025.