thumpingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

thumping +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

thumpingly (comparative more thumpingly, superlative most thumpingly)

  1. With thumping noises.
    He walked thumpingly up the stairs in his boots.
  2. (informal) Extremely.
    • 1994, Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, page 169:
      It was a thumpingly tall ladder.
    • 2016 March 24, Sebastian Shakespeare, “'No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim': Moment Burma democracy heroine Suu Kyi lost her cool with BBC's Mishal Husain after being quizzed over violence towards Muslim minority”, in Daily Mail[1]:
      But while often seen as a symbol of the BBC’s commitment to diversity, she is, herself, thumpingly posh.