gaspy

comparative gaspier · superlative gaspiest

1. Resembling or characterised by gasps.

   When I tried it on, I discovered why my friends were so gaspy: it fit perfectly.

   2007 September 6, Mike Albo, “The Department of Just Right”, in New York Times

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   Then his eyes began to spread and his breath to come out kinder gaspy like, and he says: "Ger-reat Scott, it's the LONGITUDE!"

   1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad