skimmingly

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English

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Etymology

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From skimming +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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skimmingly (comparative more skimmingly, superlative most skimmingly)

  1. in a skimming manner
    • 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I[1]:
      Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adelie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.
    • 1852, Orville Dewey, letter to his daughter Mary[2]:
      Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's "Architecture of the Heavens."