pantingly

English

Etymology

panting +‎ -ly

Adverb

pantingly (comparative more pantingly, superlative most pantingly)

1. While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.
   • 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Appendix.] C. Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was never Consummated.”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 581:

     This same man, […] pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print, […]

   • 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.