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plummily en · ADV

Etymology

From plummy + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a plummy manner.
    • Her voice rose plummily into the darkened room[…] 2004, Michael Byers, Long for This World, page 162:
    • He laughed again, plummily. "Sounds as though he'd committed the murder himself." 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:

Forms

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more plummily Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most plummily Degree=Sup lexicographic