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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hissingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English hissing Middle English -ly English -ly English hissingly From hissing + -ly.

Meanings

  1. While hissing; in a hissing fashion
    • He lingered hissingly over the word. 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 27, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:

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