suckingly

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English

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Etymology

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From sucking +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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suckingly (comparative more suckingly, superlative most suckingly)

  1. With a sucking sound or motion.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      [] but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling went clean out of sight!