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jettingly

jettingly adverb: with a jetting motion.

Adverb

jettingly (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) With a jetting motion.
    • In a nook of [sleek? slack?] shadow a water-fly slips / Jettingly out in the sultry glow1886, T. C. Irwin, “An Irish Stream”, in The Shamrock, volume 24, page 8
    • Or under banks in shadow of their grass, / Blue water-flies by starts jettingly pass1881, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life, page 79

Origin of jettingly

From jetting + -ly.

Questions about jettingly

What does jettingly mean?
Jettingly means with a jetting motion.
What part of speech is jettingly?
Jettingly is an adverb.

Words near jettingly in the dictionary

  1. jetties
  2. jettiest
  3. jettiness
  4. jetting
  5. jetting off
  6. jettingly
  7. jettings
  8. jettison
  9. jettisonability
  10. jettisonable
  11. jettisoned

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