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slappingly en · ADV

Etymology

From slapping + -ly.

Meanings

1. With a slapping sound or motion.
   • He waved the ruler in the air and marched slappingly around the room, warbling a few bars from a song suitable for a king. 2010, Susan Troutt, The How-To Joke, page 59:
   • She […] stepped out slappingly upon her pasterns. 1855, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, The Odoherty papers, page 336:
   • In Cree, among friends, it [a vulgar postscript] is hysterically, thigh-slappingly, gut-bustingly funny. 2008, Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, page 37:

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