chokily

English

Etymology

chokey +‎ -ly

Adverb

chokily (comparative more chokily, superlative most chokily)

1. In a chokey manner, as if choking.
   • 1879, Lillian Spender, Godwyn’s Ordeal, London: Hurst and Blackett, Volume 2, Chapter 3, p. 78,^[1]

     “It is almost mocking me to talk about my help, you who are so much more influential,” she answered, rather chokily.

   • 1901, E. Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods, New York: Harper, “The Tower of Mystery,” p. 83,^[2]

     Then Alice said, speaking chokily because she had not quite done crying: “Let’s wave a flag.”

   • 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, Chapter 21,^[3]

     “I haven’t one thing that belonged to my mother,” said Anne, chokily. “I—I can never thank you enough for these letters.”

   • 1916, Cornelia Meigs, Master Simon’s Garden, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, Chapter 17,^[4]

     She swallowed chokily with a dry throat, but she turned her head away and gazed indifferently into the fire.

See also

• chokingly