bronchitically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bronchitic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

bronchitically (comparative more bronchitically, superlative most bronchitically)

  1. With coughing and wheezing caused by bronchitis; (figuratively) with noises reminiscent of such coughing and wheezing.
    • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 24, in Burmese Days[1]:
      The harmonium quavered bronchitically as Mrs Lackersteen struggled to pump sufficient air into it with the sole pedal that worked.
    • 1967, Cynthia Nolan, Open Negative: An American Memoir, Macmillan, page 108:
      Waiting, too, were other people, shabby grey men and women, children holding on to their mothers' skirts, small Puerto Ricans, whites who wheezed bronchitically, others whose lips were lined in blue.