flappingly
English
Etymology
flapping + -ly
Adverb
flappingly (comparative more flappingly, superlative most flappingly)
- With a flapping motion.
- 1592, Robert Dallington (translator), Hypnerotomachia by Francesco Colonna, London: Simon Waterson, p. 15,
- His rigged large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant.
- 1837, Theodore Hook, Jack Brag, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 287,
- When he talked, he pawed the air with his hands flappingly, something after the fashion of a kangaroo […]
- 1933, Ben Ames Williams, Pascal’s Mill, New York: Dutton, Chapter 5, p. 75,
- His blue overalls, faded from many washings, fitted him flappingly.
- 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 3, p. 80,
- There was a crippled man down there […] . Convulsions made the man dance flappingly all the time, made him change his expressions, too, as though he were trying to imitate various famous movie stars.
- 1592, Robert Dallington (translator), Hypnerotomachia by Francesco Colonna, London: Simon Waterson, p. 15,