hackingly

English

Etymology

From hacking +‎ -ly.

Adverb

hackingly (comparative more hackingly, superlative most hackingly)

1. In a hacking manner; brokenly or jerkily.

   The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.

   Magazine illustrations cut hackingly by her tiny, amateur fingers.

   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 32; collected in Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, ebook:

     He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

References

• “hackingly” at Wordnik