inchingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]inchingly (comparative more inchingly, superlative most inchingly)
- An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
- 1995, Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house, page 141:
- When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.
- 2010, Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, page 146:
- […] a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.