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zingingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English zinging Middle English -ly English -ly English zingingly From zinging + -ly.

Meanings

1. While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
   • Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth. 1952, Edward Francis Murphy, chapter 1, in Yankee Priest, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 43:
   • The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet. 2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times:
2. To the point of zinging.
   • I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes. 2000, Ike Oguine, A Squatter’s Tale, London: Heinemann, page 148:
   • zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy
3. (colloquial) In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.
   • Everyone got on zingingly […] 1970, Michael Thomas, “John Phillips: The Wolfking as Lord Byron”, in Ben Fong-Torres, editor, The Rolling Stone Rock ’n’ Roll Reader, New York: Bantam, published 1974, page 509:
   • Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […] 1989, Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity, New York: Viking, page 274:

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Synonyms

intensely · beautifully · famously · swimmingly · fabulously