throbby

English

Etymology

throb +‎ -y

Adjective

throbby (comparative throbbier, superlative throbbiest)

  1. throbbing
    • 1953, James M. Cain, Two O'Clock Blonde
      My heart did a throbby flip-flop when the buzzer sounded at last. It was all very well to ask a girl to my hotel suite, but I was new to such stuff […]
    • 2001, Perry R. Cook, Music, cognition, and computerized sound, page 180:
      Some of its bass chords that sound good in meantone temperament sound throbby and wrong in equal temperament.
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