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  • adverb In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

Etymologies

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hacking +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Levitt starts each chapter with one of these bizarre questions that he has hackingly coughed out of his mystical lungs.

    Not So Dinty Any Moore - Beef Stew 2006

  • Levitt starts each chapter with one of these bizarre questions that he has hackingly coughed out of his mystical lungs.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • "No rumor!" shouted the glowing, golden man, and he paused to cough hackingly.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

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