teeteringly
advEtymology From teetering + -ly.
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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: