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tossily

tossily adverb: in a tossy manner.

Adverb

tossily (comparative more tossily, superlative most tossily)

  1. In a tossy manner.
    • Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily...2000, James Hawes, “Among the Dead, Live”, in Dead Long Enough, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 9

Forms of tossily

comparativemore tossily
superlativemost tossily

Origin of tossily

From tossy + -ly.

Questions about tossily

What does tossily mean?
Tossily means in a tossy manner.
What part of speech is tossily?
Tossily is an adverb.

Words near tossily in the dictionary

  1. tossicate
  2. tossicated
  3. tossicates
  4. tossicating
  5. Tosside
  6. tossily
  7. tossin'
  8. tossing
  9. tossing and turning
  10. tossing around
  11. tossing away

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