hackingly
English
Etymology
hacking + -ly
Adverb
hackingly (comparative more hackingly, superlative most hackingly)
- In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.
- The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.
- Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 32; collected in Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, ebook:
- He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”
References
- “hackingly” at Wordnik