adv. [f. FLASHY + -LY2.] In a flashy manner; gaudily, showily. Also, like or as a flash.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Flashily, vainly, frothily.
1863. Speke, Discov. Nile, 154. Flashily dressed in coloured cloths and a turban, he sat down in one of our chairs.
1864. Miss Braddon, H. Dunbar, v. But he evinced no bad taste in the selection of a costume. He chose no gaudy colours, or flashily cut vestments.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., III. xcix. 392. An ill-omened looking man, flashily dressed, and rude in demeanour, was sitting behind a table.
