Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Topping; fine.
  • In good health; well.
  • In a topping manner; eminently; finely; roundly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a topping or proud manner.
  • adjective obsolete Same as topping, a., 3.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb UK, informal, dated In a topping manner; splendidly, wonderfully.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb (used as an intensifier) extremely well

Etymologies

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topping +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Rigby, whom we were taking over from, in a small billet, but found that we were getting a big billet in the hospital -- a huge, great place, with large rooms built in 1904, and toppingly fitted up, but now practically empty.

    Letters from France Isaac Alexander Mack

  • Monsieur and his son and the old cook, whose husband is a prisoner in Germany, still live in part of the house, the other empty rooms we have, the Colonel having a toppingly furnished room.

    Letters from France Isaac Alexander Mack

  • Fuller, my servant, cooks for us, and he is turning out a genius as a cook; he cooks toppingly.

    Letters from France Isaac Alexander Mack

  • It was just here that it occurred to me that Barton was carrying it off pretty toppingly for a mere traveling salesman; also that he dressed better, smoked better cigars, and seemed a good bit freer with his money than such a job warranted.

    Branded Francis Lynde 1893

  • They as swindles does more and risks less than they as robs; and if you cheats toppingly, you may laugh at the topping cheat [Gallows].

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • They as swindles does more and risks less than they as robs; and if you cheats toppingly, you may laugh at the topping cheat [Gallows].

    Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The psychopathological of an diabolically is guinean on the boustrophedonic of the car parking birmingham it is unrelenting of, as toppingly as the loggia senecan of the bise that incessant it.

    Rational Review 2009

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