chokingly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
24
Letters
9

Definition of chokingly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
    “Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.”
    “Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.”
    “In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.”
    “His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.”

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Etymology

From choking + -ly.

Words you can make from chokingly

161 playable · top: CHINKY (18 pts)

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7-letter words

6 words

6-letter words

12 words

5-letter words

34 words

4-letter words

58 words

3-letter words

35 words

2-letter words

15 words

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