flappingly
With a flapping motion.
Adverb
- With a flapping motion.
- His rigged large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant. - 1592, Francesco Colonna, translated by Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, London: Simon...
- When he talked, he pawed the air with his hands flappingly, something after the fashion of a kangaroo […] - 1837, Theodore Hook, chapter 9, in Jack Brag, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 287:
- His blue overalls, faded from many washings, fitted him flappingly. - 1933, Ben Ames Williams, chapter 5, in Pascal’s Mill, New York: Dutton, page 75:
Origin
From flapping + -ly.