Meanings
comparative more teeteringly · superlative most teeteringly
- While teetering, or as if teetering.
She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress.
2008, Suzanne White, The New Chinese Astrology1 more example
We feel more dangerously, teeteringly close to disease and death (in a slow, rotting, swamp-induced fashion) than we did during the war in Rhodesia...
2003, Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Origin
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teeteringly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teeteringly
“teeteringly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teeteringly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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