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单词 inchingly
释义

inchingly

English

Etymology

inching + -ly

Adverb

inchingly (comparative more inchingly, superlative most inchingly)

  1. An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
    • 1995, Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house (page 141)
      When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.
    • 2010, Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (page 146)
      [] a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.
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