quackingly
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]quackingly (comparative more quackingly, superlative most quackingly)
- In a quacking manner; with quacking sounds.
- 1912, The English Illustrated Magazine:
- ...expressing their satisfaction in deep, megaphone voices, until they are quite sure we have heard, when they go quackingly away to the nearest pond.
- 1950, George C Appell, The Tin Trumpet of China:
- His anger broke and he cursed quackingly, cursed in bleats, cursed until he drooled and had to apply his sleeve to his mouth.
- 1985, Joel Flegler, Fanfare:
- ...some smartly styled but quackingly played overtures by the Monte Carlo Operators under Louis Frémaux...