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frettingly

frettingly adverb: with fretting behaviour.

Adverb

frettingly (comparative more frettingly, superlative most frettingly)

  1. With fretting behaviour.
    • Like a mettled young war-horse that tosses his mane, / And frettingly champs at the bit and the rein1866, Margaret Junkin Preston, Beechenbrook: a rhyme of the war, page 18

Forms of frettingly

comparativemore frettingly
superlativemost frettingly

Origin of frettingly

From fretting + -ly.

Questions about frettingly

What does frettingly mean?
Frettingly means with fretting behaviour.
What part of speech is frettingly?
Frettingly is an adverb.

Words near frettingly in the dictionary

  1. fretteth
  2. frettiness
  3. fretting
  4. fretting leprosy
  5. fretting the gizzard
  6. frettingly
  7. frettings
  8. fretts
  9. fretty
  10. fretum
  11. Fretwell

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