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chokingly en · ADV

Etymology

From choking + -ly.

Meanings

1. While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
   • In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces. 1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader:
   • Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:
   • Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly. 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
   • His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct. 2007 April 12, Richard Eder, “A Line Divides Art and Life. Erase It at Your Own Risk.”, in New York Times:

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