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quackingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English quacking Middle English -ly English -ly English quackingly From quacking + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a quacking manner; with quacking sounds.
   • ...some smartly styled but quackingly played overtures by the Monte Carlo Operators under Louis Frémaux... 1985, Joel Flegler, Fanfare:
   • His anger broke and he cursed quackingly, cursed in bleats, cursed until he drooled and had to apply his sleeve to his mouth. 1950, George C Appell, The Tin Trumpet of China:
   • ...expressing their satisfaction in deep, megaphone voices, until they are quite sure we have heard, when they go quackingly away to the nearest pond. 1912, The English Illustrated Magazine:

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