slappingly

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adverb

With a slapping sound or motion.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adverbslappingly (comparative more slappingly, superlative most slappingly)

comparative more slappingly · superlative most slappingly

  1. With a slapping sound or motion.

    She […] stepped out slappingly upon her pasterns.

    1855, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, The Odoherty papers, page 336
    2 more examples

    In Cree, among friends, it [a vulgar postscript] is hysterically, thigh-slappingly, gut-bustingly funny.

    2008, Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, page 37

    He waved the ruler in the air and marched slappingly around the room, warbling a few bars from a song suitable for a king.

    2010, Susan Troutt, The How-To Joke, page 59

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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