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hackingly en · ADV

Etymology

From hacking + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.
   • The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.
   • He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine. 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 32; collected in Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, ebook
   • Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.
   • “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.” 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

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