zingingly

zingingly

English

Etymology

zinging +‎ -ly

Adverb

zingingly (comparative more zingingly, superlative most zingingly)

1. While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
   • 1952, Edward Francis Murphy, Yankee Priest, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 1, p. 43,

     Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth.

   • 2009, January 24, “Alastair Macaulay”, in A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight‎:

     The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet.

2. To the point of zinging.

   Synonym: intensely

   zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy

   • 2000, Ike Oguine, A Squatter’s Tale, London: Heinemann, p. 148,

     I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes.

3. (colloquial) In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.

   Synonyms: beautifully, fabulously, famously, swimmingly

   • 1970, Michael Thomas, “John Phillips: The Wolfking as Lord Byron” in Ben Fong-Torres (ed.), The Rolling Stone Rock ’n’ Roll Reader, New York Bantam, 1974, p. 509,

     Everyone got on zingingly […]

   • 1989, Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity, New York: Viking, p. 274,

     Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […]