slappingly

slappingly

English

Etymology

slapping +‎ -ly

Adverb

slappingly (comparative more slappingly, superlative most slappingly)

1. With a slapping sound or motion.
   • 1855, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, The Odoherty papers (page 336)

     She […] stepped out slappingly upon her pasterns.

   • 2008, Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality (page 37)

     In Cree, among friends, it [a vulgar postscript] is hysterically, thigh-slappingly, gut-bustingly funny.

   • 2010, Susan Troutt, The How-To Joke (page 59)

     He waved the ruler in the air and marched slappingly around the room, warbling a few bars from a song suitable for a king.