throbby

throbby

English

Etymology

throb +‎ -y

Adjective

throbby (comparative throbbier, superlative throbbiest)

1. throbbing
   • 1953, James M. Cain, Two O'Clock Blonde

     My heart did a throbby flip-flop when the buzzer sounded at last. It was all very well to ask a girl to my hotel suite, but I was new to such stuff […]

   • 2001, Perry R. Cook, Music, cognition, and computerized sound, page 180:

     Some of its bass chords that sound good in meantone temperament sound throbby and wrong in equal temperament.