Meanings
adverbcoxcombically (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletein the manner of a coxcomb
"Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
Origin
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coxcombically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coxcombically
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