jettingly

adv

jettingly

adv

Etymology From jetting + -ly.

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:

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