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Definition of Hiccupy
1. marked by hiccups [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hiccupy
Literary usage of Hiccupy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"... in rapid alternation, of the vocal parts, producing a spasmodic, " hiccupy "
effect; chiefly in vogue during the 12th and I3th centuries. ..."
2. The Physiology of New York Boarding-houses by Thomas Butler Gunn (1857)
"When their return hinted dissatisfaction at these proceedings, she reversed her
blunder, indulging at the same time in a confused and hiccupy monologue ..."
3. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"and a hiccupy laugh, in which the card-players most heartily joined, the next
scene in the drama being the ascent of the doctor on the table to recite the ..."
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