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bulimically en · ADV

Etymology

From bulimic + -ally.

Meanings

1. With, or as if with, bulimia.
   • On the contrary, the power of her appeal was precisely the vulnerable fallibility that became increasingly visible as the wide eyes got still wider in the bulimically shrunken cheeks. 1998, Brian MacArthur, Requiem: Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997, page 140:
   • Like Hamlet, he's got an 'eatupus complex', indulging in incestuous cunnilinguistics underneath the 'squirtscreen' of his octopus-ink; and he also eats too much, bulimically devouring and regurgitating other people's words[…] 2003, Peter Holland, Shakespeare and comedy, page 144:

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