jettingly

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English

Etymology

From jetting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

jettingly (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) With a jetting motion.
    • 1886, T. C. Irwin, “An Irish Stream”, in The Shamrock, volume 24, page 8:
      In a nook of [sleek? slack?] shadow a water-fly slips / Jettingly out in the sultry glow
    • 1881, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life, page 79:
      Or under banks in shadow of their grass, / Blue water-flies by starts jettingly pass