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teeteringly en · ADV

Etymology

From teetering + -ly.

Meanings

1. While teetering, or as if teetering.
   • She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress. 2008, Suzanne White, The New Chinese Astrology:
   • 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:

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