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flappingly en · ADV

Etymology

From flapping + -ly.

Meanings

1. With a flapping motion.
   • His rigged large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant. 1592, Francesco Colonna, translated by Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, London: Simon Waterson, page 15:
   • There was a crippled man down there […]. Convulsions made the man dance flappingly all the time, made him change his expressions, too, as though he were trying to imitate various famous movie stars. 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 80:
   • His blue overalls, faded from many washings, fitted him flappingly. 1933, Ben Ames Williams, chapter 5, in Pascal’s Mill, New York: Dutton, page 75:
   • When he talked, he pawed the air with his hands flappingly, something after the fashion of a kangaroo […] 1837, Theodore Hook, chapter 9, in Jack Brag, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 287:

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