roupily

comparative more roupily · superlative most roupily

1. In a manner as if affected with roup. In a hoarse or husky manner.

   Afterwards he went home, wrote to Jenny Patterson and 'sang a lot in spite of the cold. Very roupily.'

   1887, A Bernard Shaw, edited by A. M. Gibbs, Diary, →ISBN, page 293

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   Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter. The bridegroom might have stepped over the wall to the wedding chamber or walked […]

   1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXI, in Bud: A Novel, Harper & Brothers, page 297

   A hand stroked once at Peggy's leg and it was the hand of Popeye, the sailor man, who muttered roupily, "Olive Oyl, you is my goil."

   1997, Richard Matheson, “Dance of the Dead”, in I Am Legend, →ISBN, page 213