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ribbingly

ribbingly adverb: teasingly.

Adverb

ribbingly (comparative more ribbingly, superlative most ribbingly)

  1. Teasingly.
    • As the summer wound down, acquaintances and friends would ask ribbingly, “How’s your wall?”2024 July 15, Heidi Julavits, “I Put Up a Fence in Maine. Why Did It Cause Such a Fuss?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of ribbingly

comparativemore ribbingly
superlativemost ribbingly

Origin of ribbingly

From ribbing + -ly.

Questions about ribbingly

What does ribbingly mean?
Ribbingly means teasingly.
What part of speech is ribbingly?
Ribbingly is an adverb.

Words near ribbingly in the dictionary

  1. ribbier
  2. ribbies
  3. ribbiest
  4. ribbin'
  5. ribbing
  6. ribbingly
  7. ribbings
  8. ribbit
  9. ribbited
  10. ribbiter
  11. ribbiters

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