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chokingly

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From choking + -ly.

  1. While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.

    Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.

    Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.