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Example: “Instead of fuming at the spilled coffee, she shrugged toonly, drew a smiley face in the puddle, and poured another cup.”

In a toonly way, a person might move with exaggerated gestures, speak in elastic, melodic tones, or react to misfortune with a comical squish rather than real pain. To act toonly is to embrace whimsy, defying physics and social gravity alike. Children understand toonly instinctively—they fall down and bounce up giggling. Adults, hardened by realism, must learn it again. toonly

If one were to coin the word toonly , it might derive from blending “toon” (cartoon) with “-ly” (adverbial suffix), meaning: in a manner characteristic of a cartoon or animated character . Example: “Instead of fuming at the spilled coffee,