chokily

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English

Etymology

From chokey +‎ -ly.

Adverb

chokily (comparative more chokily, superlative most chokily)

  1. In a chokey manner, as if choking.
    • 1879, Lillian Spender, chapter 3, in Godwyn’s Ordeal,‎, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 78:
      “It is almost mocking me to talk about my help, you who are so much more influential,” she answered, rather chokily.
    • 1901, E. Nesbit, “The Tower of Mystery”, in The Wouldbegoods‎, New York: Harper, page 83:
      Then Alice said, speaking chokily because she had not quite done crying: “Let’s wave a flag.”
    • 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of the Island‎:
      “I haven’t one thing that belonged to my mother,” said Anne, chokily. “I—I can never thank you enough for these letters.”
    • 1916, Cornelia Meigs, Master Simon’s Garden‎, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, Chapter 17:
      She swallowed chokily with a dry throat, but she turned her head away and gazed indifferently into the fire.

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