coxcombically

English

Etymology

coxcombical +‎ -ly

Adverb

coxcombically (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88

     "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.