Meanings
comparative more inchingly · superlative most inchingly
- An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
[…]a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.
2010, Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, page 1461 more example
When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.
1995, Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house, page 141
Origin
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