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rockingly

rockingly adverb: with a rocking sound or motion.

Adverb

rockingly (comparative more rockingly, superlative most rockingly)

  1. With a rocking sound or motion.
    • The train wound slowly, rockingly through the night.1932, Walter Arnold Rukeyser, Working for the Soviets, page 101
    • His playing is richly imaginative, often sensuous, and always rockingly rhythmic.1955, Frederic V. Grunfeld, Music and Recordings, 1955, page 200

Forms of rockingly

comparativemore rockingly
superlativemost rockingly

Origin of rockingly

From rocking + -ly.

Questions about rockingly

What does rockingly mean?
Rockingly means with a rocking sound or motion.
What part of speech is rockingly?
Rockingly is an adverb.

Words near rockingly in the dictionary

  1. rocking-horses
  2. rockingest
  3. Rockingham
  4. Rockingham County
  5. Rockinghams
  6. rockingly
  7. rockings
  8. rockish
  9. rockism
  10. rockist
  11. rockists

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