loafingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

loafing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

loafingly (comparative more loafingly, superlative most loafingly)

  1. While loafing or idling.
    • 1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:
      Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, []