zingingly

English

Etymology

zinging +‎ -ly

Adverb

zingingly (comparative more zingingly, superlative most zingingly)

1. While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
   • 1952, Edward Francis Murphy, chapter 1, in Yankee Priest‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 43:

     Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth.

   • 2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet.

2. To the point of zinging.

   Synonym: intensely

   zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy

   • 2000, Ike Oguine, A Squatter’s Tale‎^[3], London: Heinemann, page 148:

     I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes.

3. (colloquial) In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.

   Synonyms: beautifully, fabulously, famously, swimmingly

   • 1970, Michael Thomas, “John Phillips: The Wolfking as Lord Byron”, in Ben Fong-Torres, editor, The Rolling Stone Rock ’n’ Roll Reader‎^[4], New York: Bantam, published 1974, page 509:

     Everyone got on zingingly […]

   • 1989, Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity‎^[5], New York: Viking, page 274:

     Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […]