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jettingly en · ADV

Etymology

From jetting + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic) With a jetting motion.
    • In a nook of [sleek? slack?] shadow a water-fly slips / Jettingly out in the sultry glow 1886, 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 pass 1881, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life, page 79: