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swimmingly, adv.|ˈswɪmɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a swimming manner.
1. With easy smooth progress; smoothly and without impediment; with uninterrupted success or prosperity. † In early use, esp. with bear, carry: With conspicuous success, with éclat.
c1622Fletcher Prophetess i. iii, Max. Can such a Rascal as thou art, hope for honour?.. Geta. Yes, and bear it too, And bear it swimmingly. 1654Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 51 Lord Percey carried himselfe swimmingly and said more for then against the Chancelor. 1668G. Etherege She Would if She Could i. i, Prithee let us dine together to-day, and be swimmingly merry. 1678Otway Friendship in F. i. i, He never dreams how swimmingly his own Affairs are manag'd at home. 1696Vanbrugh Relapse iv. i, So, matters go swimmingly. 1754Warburton in W. & Hurd's Lett. (1809) 186 Only this last year or two I was going swimmingly on. I have now struck upon a rock. 1824Lady Granville Lett. 14 Mar. (1894) I. 266 The interview went off very swimmingly. 1844Macaulay in Trevelyan Life & Lett. (1876) II. x. 152 The article on Chatham goes on swimmingly. 1893W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 155 Everything went swimmingly with the prosecution.
2. With a smooth gliding movement.
1745Gentl. Mag. July 384/2 Like fluttering angels they swimmingly move. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 37 Perhaps the reality did not appear quite so swimmingly elegant..as the fancy of the thing [sc. a rustic dance] had been. 1842Browning Waring i. iv, E'en so, swimmingly appears, Through one's after-supper musings, Some lost Lady of old years. |