jettingly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]jettingly (not comparable)
- (poetic) With a jetting motion.
- 1886, T. C. Irwin, “An Irish Stream”, in The Shamrock, volume 24, page 8:
- In a nook of [sleek? slack?] shadow a water-fly slips / Jettingly out in the sultry glow
- 1881, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life, page 79:
- Or under banks in shadow of their grass, / Blue water-flies by starts jettingly pass