jitteringly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

jittering +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

jitteringly (comparative more jitteringly, superlative most jitteringly)

  1. So as to jitter.
    • 2009 May 31, “Reaching Here”, in New York Times[1]:
      In later centuries, the masses of European immigrants making footfall in New York’s streets saw the turbid, jostling, unprecedented mix of peoples, all striving to get ahead, and called the jitteringly new phenomenon “American.”