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  • adverb So as to stream or flow.

Etymologies

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streaming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I found it tear-streamingly hilarious; The Office to the power of ten.

    Boring Borat 2007

  • He remembered a truly fearsome Maths teacher with an intimidating resemblance to Oliver Reed, in whose class the most infantile whispered remark could seem eye-streamingly hilarious through the terror of incurring his volcanic wrath and his unrivalled belt-technique.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • We did not object to the discomfort, though two of us nearly fainted on parade the following morning -- it was streamingly hot -- but our farewell dinner was absolutely spoilt.

    Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

  • Wheeling about choking and strangling from the smoke, his streamingly smarting eyes barely able to discern the fiery trail he had laid.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Torrents were in store, for they coursed streamingly still and had not the higher lift, or eagle ascent, which he knew for one of the signs of fairness, nor had the hills any belt of mist-like vapour.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Torrents were in store, for they coursed streamingly still and had not the higher lift, or eagle ascent, which he knew for one of the signs of fairness, nor had the hills any belt of mist-like vapour.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • And very gently touching me with his elbow, he said: "You too -- you will have lived your life and everything will remain exactly as it was, and then you too will cry worse than I, more 'streamingly,' as the peasant women say.

    Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy 1920

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