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spooneristically

spooneristically adverb: in a spooneristic manner.

Adverb

spooneristically (not comparable)

  1. In a spooneristic manner.
    • People are not, and do not want to be, wholly grasshoppers or wholly ants, but a combination of the two; people are and want to be (if you will forgive a regrettably vulgar but spooneristically inevitable construction) ass-hoppers or grants. We can, of course, all cease to work, but if we do then...1978, Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, page 9
    • Ultimately, the fanciful but probably untrue witch and crap etymologies should simply be allowed to spooneristically flutter by.2006, William Brohaugh, Unfortunate English: The Gloomy Truth Behind the Words You Use, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, page 153

Origin of spooneristically

From spooneristic + -ally.

Questions about spooneristically

What does spooneristically mean?
Spooneristically means in a spooneristic manner.
What part of speech is spooneristically?
Spooneristically is an adverb.

Words near spooneristically in the dictionary

  1. spoonered
  2. spoonering
  3. spoonerism
  4. spoonerisms
  5. spooneristic
  6. spooneristically
  7. spoonerize
  8. spoonerized
  9. spoonerizes
  10. spoonerizing
  11. spooners

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