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loafingly

loafingly adverb: while loafing or idling.

Adverb

loafingly (comparative more loafingly, superlative most loafingly)

  1. While loafing or idling.
    • Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137

Forms of loafingly

comparativemore loafingly
superlativemost loafingly

Origin of loafingly

From loafing + -ly.

Questions about loafingly

What does loafingly mean?
Loafingly means while loafing or idling.
What part of speech is loafingly?
Loafingly is an adverb.

Words near loafingly in the dictionary

  1. loafers
  2. loafin'
  3. loafing
  4. loafing about
  5. loafing around
  6. loafingly
  7. loafings
  8. loaflet
  9. loaflets
  10. loaflike
  11. loafs

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