soapily

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

soapy +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

soapily (comparative more soapily, superlative most soapily)

  1. In a soapy way.
    • 1897, Edmund Francis Burton, Trouting in Norway[1], page 103:
      On both sides, great precipitous mountains reach down to the sterile shores; and, on the South side, they are relieved by considerable masses of forest, and by many waterfalls, one of which is of large volume, showing like silver ribbons, and sliding soapily down the steep mountains' sides.

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