English

Adverb

skimmingly ‎(comparative more skimmingly, superlative most skimmingly)

1. in a skimming manner
   • 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:

     Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adelie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Orville Dewey, Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.:

     Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's "Architecture of the Heavens."