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ripsnortingly

ripsnortingly adverb: in a ripsnorting manner; excellently or intensely.

Adverb

ripsnortingly (comparative more ripsnortingly, superlative most ripsnortingly)

  1. (slang) In a ripsnorting manner; excellently or intensely.
    • Runaway Train is at times a ripsnortingly tense action movie. But it is also, I'm afraid, a metaphor. The Nietzschean Manny ("Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is his motto) is none other than existential man in all his rugged intransigence, and that train, bound for freedom, is, well you...1985, Joseph Becker Phillips, Malcolm Muir, Raymond Moley, Rex Smith, Samuel Thurston Williamson (editors), Newsweek, volume 106, numbers 19-27, page 62

Forms of ripsnortingly

comparativemore ripsnortingly
superlativemost ripsnortingly

Origin of ripsnortingly

From ripsnorting + -ly.

Questions about ripsnortingly

What does ripsnortingly mean?
Ripsnortingly means in a ripsnorting manner; excellently or intensely.
What part of speech is ripsnortingly?
Ripsnortingly is an adverb.

Words near ripsnortingly in the dictionary

  1. ripsawyers
  2. ripshit
  3. ripsnorter
  4. ripsnorters
  5. ripsnorting
  6. ripsnortingly
  7. ripstick
  8. ripsticks
  9. ripstop
  10. ripstops
  11. ript

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