zingingly

English

Etymology

From zinging +‎ -ly.

Adverb

zingingly (comparative more zingingly, superlative most zingingly)

While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
- 1952, Edward Francis Murphy, chapter 1, in Yankee Priest‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 43:
  Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth.
- 2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times‎^[2]:
  The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet.
To the point of zinging.
Synonym: intensely

zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy
- 2000, Ike Oguine, A Squatter’s Tale‎^[3], London: Heinemann, page 148:
  I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes.
(colloquial) In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.
Synonyms: beautifully, fabulously, famously, swimmingly
- 1970, Michael Thomas, “John Phillips: The Wolfking as Lord Byron”, in Ben Fong-Torres, editor, The Rolling Stone Rock ’n’ Roll Reader‎^[4], New York: Bantam, published 1974, page 509:
  Everyone got on zingingly […]
- 1989, Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity‎^[5], New York: Viking, page 274:
  Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […]