pantingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

panting +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

pantingly (comparative more pantingly, superlative most pantingly)

  1. While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.
    • 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times[1]:
      He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.