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  • adverb In a doughy way.

Etymologies

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doughy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The boatman unfolded the covering, and displayed to Beringar's view the body of a heavily-built man of some fifty to fifty-five years, fleshy, with thinning, grizzled hair and bristly, bluish jowls, his pouchy features sagging doughily in death.

    St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • The boatman unfolded the covering, and displayed to Beringar's view the body of a heavily-built man of some fifty to fifty-five years, fleshy, with thinning, grizzled hair and bristly, bluish jowls, his pouchy features sagging doughily in death.

    St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

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