coxcombically
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From coxcombical + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]coxcombically (not comparable)
- (obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
- "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88