rustfully

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

rustful +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

rustfully (comparative more rustfully, superlative most rustfully)

  1. In a rustful manner.
    • 1893, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 20, page 533:
      Her sister, the Nevada, is reposing “rustfully” in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool.
    • 2013 Authumn, A Vickery, “Roadside; Contagious feeling”, in Island, number 132:
      Load bearing Chrome butterflies that wreathe rustfully around my breast.
    • 2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin: A Novel, →ISBN:
      He turned his slat chair, property of the house, squealing rustfully in the joints, so that he could not see the kitchen window.
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