chokily
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]chokily (comparative more chokily, superlative most chokily)
- In a chokey manner, as if choking.
- 1879, Lillian Spender, chapter 3, in Godwyn’s Ordeal,[1], volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 78:
- “It is almost mocking me to talk about my help, you who are so much more influential,” she answered, rather chokily.
- 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of the Island[3]:
- “I haven’t one thing that belonged to my mother,” said Anne, chokily. “I—I can never thank you enough for these letters.”
- 1916, Cornelia Meigs, Master Simon’s Garden[4], New York: Macmillan, Part 2, Chapter 17:
- She swallowed chokily with a dry throat, but she turned her head away and gazed indifferently into the fire.