Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a corpulent manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a corpulent manner.

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  • adverb In a corpulent manner.

Etymologies

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corpulent +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Its body, swelling out corpulently below the iron belt, glowed red; and Happy Jack's wolf-skin overcoat was beginning to exhale a rank, animal odor.

    The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

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