quackingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

quacking +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

quackingly (comparative more quackingly, superlative most quackingly)

  1. In a quacking manner; with quacking sounds.
    • 1912, The English Illustrated Magazine:
      ...expressing their satisfaction in deep, megaphone voices, until they are quite sure we have heard, when they go quackingly away to the nearest pond.
    • 1950, George C Appell, The Tin Trumpet of China:
      His anger broke and he cursed quackingly, cursed in bleats, cursed until he drooled and had to apply his sleeve to his mouth.
    • 1985, Joel Flegler, Fanfare:
      ...some smartly styled but quackingly played overtures by the Monte Carlo Operators under Louis Frémaux...