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doughily

doughily adverb: in a doughy way.

Adverb

doughily (comparative more doughily, superlative most doughily)

  1. In a doughy way.
    • Her reactions to the X-rays were very severe, and for the first three or four days after treatment her skin had a positively gray tinge, her face puffing out doughily.1998, Charlotte Vale Allen, Love Life, page 251

Forms of doughily

comparativemore doughily
superlativemost doughily

Origin of doughily

From doughy + -ly.

Questions about doughily

What does doughily mean?
Doughily means in a doughy way.
What part of speech is doughily?
Doughily is an adverb.

Words near doughily in the dictionary

  1. doughfaces
  2. doughfacism
  3. doughier
  4. doughies
  5. doughiest
  6. doughily
  7. doughiness
  8. doughing
  9. doughless
  10. doughlike
  11. doughmaker

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