flappingly

English

Etymology

From flapping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

flappingly (comparative more flappingly, superlative most flappingly)

1. With a flapping motion.
   • 1592, Francesco Colonna, translated by Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia‎^[1], London: Simon Waterson, page 15:

     His rigged large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant.

   • 1837, Theodore Hook, chapter 9, in Jack Brag‎^[2], volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 287:

     When he talked, he pawed the air with his hands flappingly, something after the fashion of a kangaroo […]

   • 1933, Ben Ames Williams, chapter 5, in Pascal’s Mill‎^[3], New York: Dutton, page 75:

     His blue overalls, faded from many washings, fitted him flappingly.

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five‎^[4], New York: Dial, published 2005, page 80:

     There was a crippled man down there […] . Convulsions made the man dance flappingly all the time, made him change his expressions, too, as though he were trying to imitate various famous movie stars.