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Swimmingly

//ˈswɪmɪŋli// adv, slang

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    With a gliding motion suggesting swimming.

    "Bear your Hips ſwimmingly, tholl loll, loll, / Keep your Eyes languiſhing, tholl loll, loll, […]"

  2. 2
    In a very favorable manner; without difficulty; agreeably, successfully. figuratively, informal

    "[…] I'faith; how ſwimmingly would this pretty little / Ambling Filly carry a man of my body!"

Adverb
  1. 1
    with no problems or difficulties wordnet

Etymology

From swimming (“(adj.) moving in water as an ordinary means of motion; without difficulty”) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives).

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