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coxcombically en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English coxcombical Middle English -ly English -ly English coxcombically From coxcombical + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb
    • "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia. 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88