flappingly

flappingly

English

Etymology

flapping +‎ -ly

Adverb

flappingly (comparative more flappingly, superlative most flappingly)

1. 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.