adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Like a spark or gallant; in a sparkish manner.
1676. Etheredge, Man of Mode, I. i. Who … has adorn’d her baldness with a large white Freez, that she may look sparkishly in the forefront of the King’s-box.
1686. F. Spence, trans. Varillas’ Ho. Medicis, 183. The king of Naples answer’d sparkishly.
1812. W. Tennant, Anster Fair, II. xlvii. Each buttonhole, and skirt, and hem is seen Sparkishly edg’d with lace of yellow gold.
1851. D. Jerrold, St. Giles, xi. 110. A young man sparkishly drest suddenly looked in.
