chokingly

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English

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Etymology

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From choking +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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chokingly (comparative more chokingly, superlative most chokingly)

  1. While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:
      Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.
    • 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory[1]:
      Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.
    • 1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.
    • 2007 April 12, Richard Eder, “A Line Divides Art and Life. Erase It at Your Own Risk.”, in New York Times[3]:
      His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.

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