frettingly

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adverb

With fretting behaviour.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adverbfrettingly (comparative more frettingly, superlative most frettingly)

comparative more frettingly · superlative most frettingly

  1. With fretting behaviour.

    Like a mettled young war-horse that tosses his mane, / And frettingly champs at the bit and the rein

    1866, Margaret Junkin Preston, Beechenbrook: a rhyme of the war, page 18

Origin

From fretting + -ly.

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APA

frettingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frettingly

MLA

“frettingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frettingly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frettingly,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frettingly.

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