throbby
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
throbby (comparative throbbier, superlative throbbiest)
- throbbing
- 1953, James M. Cain, Two O'Clock Blonde:
- My heart did a throbby flip-flop when the buzzer sounded at last. It was all very well to ask a girl to my hotel suite, but I was new to such stuff […]
- 2001, Perry R. Cook, Music, cognition, and computerized sound, page 180:
- Some of its bass chords that sound good in meantone temperament sound throbby and wrong in equal temperament.