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bronchitically en · ADV

Etymology

From bronchitic + -ally.

Meanings

1. With coughing and wheezing caused by bronchitis; (figuratively) with noises reminiscent of such coughing and wheezing.
   • The harmonium quavered bronchitically as Mrs Lackersteen struggled to pump sufficient air into it with the sole pedal that worked. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 24, in Burmese Days:
   • Waiting, too, were other people, shabby grey men and women, children holding on to their mothers' skirts, small Puerto Ricans, whites who wheezed bronchitically, others whose lips were lined in blue. 1967, Cynthia Nolan, Open Negative: An American Memoir, Macmillan, page 108:

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