plummily

adv

plummily

adv

Etymology From plummy + -ly.

1

In a plummy manner.

He laughed again, plummily. "Sounds as though he'd committed the murder himself."1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:
Her voice rose plummily into the darkened room[…]2004, Michael Byers, Long for This World, page 162:

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