anagrammatically
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anagrammatic + -ally or anagrammatical + -ly.[1]
Adverb
[edit]anagrammatically (comparative more anagrammatically, superlative most anagrammatically)
- In an anagrammatic manner.
- 1886, Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author[1]:
- Now the words "Oh, Walter Hawkins, Esquire," makes anagrammatically, "W.H., who likes rare antiques!" exactly his idiosyncrasy as a man and a collector.
- 2009 July 18, Mike Hale, “Gay Heroes and a Reptilian Monster, From the BBC”, in New York Times[2]:
- The monster in this case is a reptilian, vomit- and blood-spewing thing in a glass tank that’s more reminiscent of “Alien” than of the dime-store concoctions on “Doctor Who,” the show from which “Torchwood” was anagrammatically spun off.
Translations
[edit]in an anagrammatic manner
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References
[edit]- ^ “anagrammatically, adv.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.