pantingly

English

Etymology

From panting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

pantingly (comparative more pantingly, superlative most pantingly)

  1. While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.
    • 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Appendix.] C. Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was never Consummated.”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 581:
      This same man, […] pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print, […]
    • 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 January 2025:
      He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.
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