zingingly
advEtymology From zinging + -ly.
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.2009 January 24, Alastair Macaulay, “A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight”, in New York Times:
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, A Squatter’s Tale, London: Heinemann, page 148:
3
Colloquial 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: