bronchitically

English

Etymology

From bronchitic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

bronchitically (comparative more bronchitically, superlative most bronchitically)

1. With coughing and wheezing caused by bronchitis; (figuratively) with noises reminiscent of such coughing and wheezing.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 24, in Burmese Days‎:

     The harmonium quavered bronchitically as Mrs Lackersteen struggled to pump sufficient air into it with the sole pedal that worked.

   • 1967, Cynthia Nolan, Open Negative: An American Memoir, Macmillan, page 108:

     Waiting, too, were other people, shabby grey men and women, children holding on to their mothers' skirts, small Puerto Ricans, whites who wheezed bronchitically, others whose lips were lined in blue.