crunchingly

English

Etymology

crunching +‎ -ly

Adverb

crunchingly (comparative more crunchingly, superlative most crunchingly)

  1. With a crunching sound or action.
    • 1931, Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Tumult, page 46:
      As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly.
    • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 183:
      He bites crunchingly through the breast, tearing through skin, flesh and bone till his teeth meet..
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