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Definition of Noddingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noddingly
Literary usage of Noddingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1853)
"... shutterless window . pane, and how noddingly we assented to the propositions
of the sermon, as intelligible to us then as the propositions of Euclid ! ..."
2. Notes and Sketches of New South Wales: During a Residence in that Colony by Charles Meredith (1844)
"... and led by a man nearly as much hidden ; carts heaped up with the green and
blossomed boughs came noddingly along, with children running beside them, ..."
3. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1895)
"... but moves so slowly and noddingly that the influence is contagious and the
care-troubled mortal on the veranda slowly but surely succumbs, and the head, ..."