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hackingly

hackingly adverb: in a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

Adverb

hackingly (comparative more hackingly, superlative most hackingly)

  1. In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.
    • The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.
    • Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.

Examples of hackingly in a sentence

  • He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 32; collected in Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, ebook
  • “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

Forms of hackingly

comparativemore hackingly
superlativemost hackingly

Origin of hackingly

From hacking + -ly.

Questions about hackingly

What does hackingly mean?
Hackingly means in a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.
How do you use hackingly in a sentence?
He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.
What part of speech is hackingly?
Hackingly is an adverb.

Words near hackingly in the dictionary

  1. hacking off
  2. hacking run
  3. hacking runs
  4. hacking up
  5. Hackingian
  6. hackingly
  7. hackings
  8. Hackington
  9. Hackintosh
  10. Hackintosher
  11. Hackintoshers

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