frettingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fretting +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

frettingly (comparative more frettingly, superlative most frettingly)

  1. With fretting behaviour.
    • 1866, Margaret Junkin Preston, Beechenbrook: a rhyme of the war, page 18:
      Like a mettled young war-horse that tosses his mane, / And frettingly champs at the bit and the rein
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