With a gliding motion suggesting swimming.
Bear your Hips ſwimmingly, tholl loll, loll, / Keep your Eyes languiſhing, tholl loll, loll, […]
In a very favorable manner; without difficulty; agreeably, successfully.
[…] I'faith; how ſwimmingly would this pretty little / Ambling Filly carry a man of my body!
From swimming (“(adj.) moving in water as an ordinary means of motion; without difficulty”) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives).
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