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clippingly

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English

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Etymology

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From clipping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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clippingly (comparative more clippingly, superlative most clippingly)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Excellently; very well.
    • 1863, William Wotherspoon Ireland, Randolph Methyl: A Story of Anglo-Indian Life, volume 2, page 72:
      Things were going on clippingly.
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