jettingly

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adverb

With a jetting motion.

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Meanings

adverbjettingly (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepoeticWith a jetting motion.

    Or under banks in shadow of their grass, / Blue water-flies by starts jettingly pass

    1881, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life, page 79
    1 more example

    In a nook of [sleek? slack?] shadow a water-fly slips / Jettingly out in the sultry glow

    1886, T. C. Irwin, “An Irish Stream”, in The Shamrock, volume 24, page 8

Origin

From jetting + -ly.

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APA

jettingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jettingly

MLA

“jettingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jettingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jettingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jettingly.

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