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bronchitically

bronchitically

English

Adverb

bronchitically (comparative more bronchitically, superlative most bronchitically)

  1. With coughing and wheezing caused by bronchitis; (figuratively) with noises reminiscent of such coughing and wheezing.
    • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 24,
      The harmonium quavered bronchitically as Mrs Lackersteen struggled to pump sufficient air into it with the sole pedal that worked.
    • 1967, Cynthia Nolan, Open Negative: An American Memoir, Macmillan, p. 108,
      Waiting, too, were other people, shabby grey men and women, children holding on to their mothers' skirts, small Puerto Ricans, whites who wheezed bronchitically, others whose lips were lined in blue.