frettingly
English
Etymology
fretting + -ly
Adverb
frettingly (comparative more frettingly, superlative most frettingly)
- With fretting behaviour.
- 1866, Margaret Junkin Preston, Beechenbrook: a rhyme of the war, page 18:
- Like a mettled young war-horse that tosses his mane, / And frettingly champs at the bit and the rein
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