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Slappingly vs Clappingly - What's the difference?

slappingly | clappingly |

As adverbs the difference between slappingly and clappingly

is that slappingly is with a slapping sound or motion while clappingly is in a clapping manner.

slappingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • With a slapping sound or motion.
  • * 1855 , William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, The Odoherty papers (page 336)
    • She stepped out slappingly upon her pasterns.
  • * 2008 , Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality (page 37)
    • In Cree, among friends, it [a vulgar postscript] is hysterically, thigh-slappingly , gut-bustingly funny.
  • * 2010 , Susan Troutt, The How-To Joke (page 59)
    • He waved the ruler in the air and marched slappingly around the room, warbling a few bars from a song suitable for a king.

    clappingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a clapping manner.