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throbby en · ADJ

Etymology

From throb + -y.

Meanings

1. throbbing
   • Some of its bass chords that sound good in meantone temperament sound throbby and wrong in equal temperament. 2001, Perry R. Cook, Music, cognition, and computerized sound, page 180:
   • My heart did a throbby flip-flop when the buzzer sounded at last. It was all very well to ask a girl to my hotel suite, but I was new to such stuff[…] 1953, James M. Cain, Two O'Clock Blonde:

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