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Inchingly vs Pinchingly - What's the difference?

inchingly | pinchingly |

As adverbs the difference between inchingly and pinchingly

is that inchingly is an inch at a time; very slowly and gradually while pinchingly is so as to pinch; with great poverty or stinginess.

inchingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
  • * 1995 , Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house (page 141)
    • When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.
  • * 2010 , Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (page 146)
    • a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.

    pinchingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • So as to pinch; with great poverty or stinginess.
    • (Webster 1913)