sobbinglyadv.
/ˈsɒbɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈsɑbɪŋli/ In a sobbing manner; with sobs.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adverb] > in sobbing manner
sobbingly1565
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Interruptus To speake sobbingly.
1570 J. Phillip in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 527 They..sobbingly did shewe by sighes Their straunge tormenting paynes.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxii. 813/1 [He] sobbingly desired them to be content.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 717 He answered, sobbingly, ‘My boy has only done his duty’.
1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 21 His heart arose to tell what it was then able only sobbingly to say.
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adv.1565- to haul a ship on a wind
- to haul ass
- to haul off
- to haul on a wind
- to haul out
- to haul over the coals
- to haul the etc wind
- to haul the her wind
- to haul the our wind
- to haul the wind
- to haul up
- to haul upon or to the wind
- to have (also send them) rolling in the aisles
- to have a bad head for
- to have a bad head for heights
- to have a bad mind for
- to have a ball
- to have a bash
- to have a bash at
- to have a bearing on
- to have a bend
- to have a big eye
- to have a bisque in one's sleeve
- to have a bisque in one'the sleeve
- to have a bitch