plungingly
English
Etymology
Adverb
plungingly (comparative more plungingly, superlative most plungingly)
- With a motion like a plunge.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.