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zingingly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English zinging Middle English -ly English -ly English zingingly From zinging + -ly.

  1. While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.

    Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth.

    The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet.

  2. To the point of zinging.

    zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy

    I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes.

  3. In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.

    Everyone got on zingingly […]

    Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […]