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buzzingly

buzzingly

7.6
With a low steady humming sound like bees
  • adverb
  • /ˈbʌzɪŋli/
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  • The bees flew buzzingly from flower to flower in the summer garden.

Examples

  • The bees buzzed buzzingly as they moved from one flower to another.

  • The old neon sign hummed buzzingly above the quiet street at night.

  • She spoke buzzingly with excitement about her new project.

  • The bees flew buzzingly around the garden.

  • She could hear the buzzingly sound of the insects.

  • As the summer day progressed, the park filled with buzzingly active insects.

  • The crowd was buzzingly alive with conversation after the concert finished.

How Noisy

loudly
172 1.0
noisily
13 1.0
buzzingly
7.6
softly
95 1.0
quietly
517 1.0

Surface Forms

buzzingly positive

Morphology

buzzingly = buzzing (transparent) = buzz + ing + ly

The adverb is formed by adding '-ly' to 'buzzing' (buzz → buzzing), directly indicating manner of producing a buzzing sound.

Etymology

Buzzingly comes from the sound word buzz, which copies the noise bees or a machine make, with -ing and -ly to make an adverb. So it means doing something 'with a buzzing sound'.