zingingly

Adverb

1. While zinging, or as if making a zinging sound.
   • Stooping, he plucked a blade of grass and ran it zingingly through his very white teeth. - 1952, Edward Francis Murphy, chapter 1, in Yankee Priest, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 43:
   • The six young women of its corps de ballet each extended a leg sideways, not high, but so zingingly as — you realized only in the next millisecond — to reveal the music, which only arrived in time with their feet. -...
2. To the point of zinging.
   • zingingly fresh; zingingly spicy
   • I looked splendid in my dark blue Canali jacket, a zingingly white shirt, a silly colourful tie covered with cartoon men and women in various stages of undress and my soft black leather Gucci shoes. - 2000, Ike Oguine,...

   Synonyms: intensely

3. In a very agreeable, favourable or successful way.
   • Everyone got on zingingly […] - 1970, Michael Thomas, “John Phillips: The Wolfking as Lord Byron”, in Ben Fong-Torres, editor, The Rolling Stone Rock ’n’ Roll Reader, New York: Bantam, published 1974, page 509:
   • Her mind roams back over the evening. How had it all gone? Quite zingingly, she thinks. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves […] - 1989, Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity, New York: Viking, page 274:

   Synonyms: beautifully fabulously famously swimmingly