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clippingly

clippingly adverb: excellently; very well.

Adverb

clippingly (comparative more clippingly, superlative most clippingly)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) Excellently; very well.
    • Things were going on clippingly.1863, William Wotherspoon Ireland, Randolph Methyl: A Story of Anglo-Indian Life, volume 2, page 72

Forms of clippingly

comparativemore clippingly
superlativemost clippingly

Origin of clippingly

From clipping + -ly.

Questions about clippingly

What does clippingly mean?
Clippingly means excellently; very well.
What part of speech is clippingly?
Clippingly is an adverb.

Words near clippingly in the dictionary

  1. clipping someone's wings
  2. clipping the church
  3. clipping the wings of
  4. Clippinger
  5. Clippingers
  6. clippingly
  7. clippings
  8. clippity-clop
  9. clippity-cloppity
  10. clippock
  11. clippocks

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