skaterly

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English

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Etymology

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From skater +‎ -ly.

Adjective

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skaterly (comparative more skaterly, superlative most skaterly)

  1. (rare) Of, or befitting, a skater.
    • 1985, Deborah Jowitt, The dance in mind: profiles and reviews 1976-83:
      ...dipping in and out of a deep lunge, he abandoned a lot of skaterly control and really dropped the weight of his body and swung it up again loosely.
    • 1986, Albert Goldbarth, Arts and sciences: poems:
      ...elegant, skaterly, bubble-chamber spirals of hair.
    • 1987, Iris Murdoch, The book and the brotherhood:
      If only he could stand on the ice for a moment or two he might manage to move cautiously forward in some reasonably skaterly manner.