coxcombically

coxcombically

English

Etymology

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English coxcombical
English -ly
English coxcombically

    From coxcombical + -ly.

    Adverb

    coxcombically (not comparable)

    1. (obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb
      • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
        "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
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