slappingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

slapping +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

slappingly (comparative more slappingly, superlative most slappingly)

  1. With a slapping sound or motion.
    • 1855, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, The Odoherty papers, page 336:
      She […] stepped out slappingly upon her pasterns.
    • 2008, Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, page 37:
      In Cree, among friends, it [a vulgar postscript] is hysterically, thigh-slappingly, gut-bustingly funny.
    • 2010, Susan Troutt, The How-To Joke, page 59:
      He waved the ruler in the air and marched slappingly around the room, warbling a few bars from a song suitable for a king.
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