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hackingly

adv

Etymology

From hacking + -ly.

  1. inherited from *hackynge✻
  2. suffixed as hackingly — “hacking + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a hacking manner

    In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

    • The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.
    • Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.
    • He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.

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