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teeteringly

teeteringly adverb: while teetering, or as if teetering.

Adverb

teeteringly (comparative more teeteringly, superlative most teeteringly)

  1. While teetering, or as if teetering.
    • We feel more dangerously, teeteringly close to disease and death (in a slow, rotting, swamp-induced fashion) than we did during the war in Rhodesia...2003, Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
    • She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress.2008, Suzanne White, The New Chinese Astrology

Forms of teeteringly

comparativemore teeteringly
superlativemost teeteringly

Origin of teeteringly

From teetering + -ly.

Questions about teeteringly

What does teeteringly mean?
Teeteringly means while teetering, or as if teetering.
What part of speech is teeteringly?
Teeteringly is an adverb.

Words near teeteringly in the dictionary

  1. teeterboards
  2. teetered
  3. teeterer
  4. teeterers
  5. teetering
  6. teeteringly
  7. teeterings
  8. teeters
  9. Teeterses
  10. Teetersville
  11. teetertail

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