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bronchitically
bronchitically
English
Adverb
bronchitically (comparative more bronchitically, superlative most bronchitically)
- 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.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 24,