chokily
advEtymology From chokey + -ly.
1
In a chokey manner, as if choking.
- “It is almost mocking me to talk about my help, you who are so much more influential,” she answered, rather chokily.1879, Lillian Spender, chapter 3, in Godwyn’s Ordeal,, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 78:
- Then Alice said, speaking chokily because she had not quite done crying: “Let’s wave a flag.”1901, E. Nesbit, “The Tower of Mystery”, in The Wouldbegoods, New York: Harper, page 83:
2 more examples
- “I haven’t one thing that belonged to my mother,” said Anne, chokily. “I—I can never thank you enough for these letters.”1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of the Island:
- She swallowed chokily with a dry throat, but she turned her head away and gazed indifferently into the fire.1916, Cornelia Meigs, Master Simon’s Garden, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, Chapter 17:
- Related terms
- chokingly