Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a buzzing manner; with a low humming sound.

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

  • adverb In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb While buzzing, or in a buzzing fashion

Etymologies

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buzzing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Such days in childhood were worse, in their way, than those long dark nights are now, those nights when you realize something about yourself and, no matter how many DVDs you slide into the player, you can't look away from that realization and there's nothing you can do but sit in a buzzingly empty room and study it, study yourself, your lacks.

    9/11/06 2006

  • Such days in childhood were worse, in their way, than those long dark nights are now, those nights when you realize something about yourself and, no matter how many DVDs you slide into the player, you can't look away from that realization and there's nothing you can do but sit in a buzzingly empty room and study it, study yourself, your lacks.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • I've had a handful of beautiful conversations that left me feeling buzzingly alive.

    lazarus Diary Entry lazarus 2003

  • Who will not say that the bee is more satisfied when he has found and drank of the honey than when he is buzzingly seeking it?

    Cosmic Consciousness

  • After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand.

    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

  • After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand.

    Great Expectations 1860

  • After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand.

    Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841

  • Their workers, too, were not exactly buzzingly productive.

    unknown title 2008

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