teeteringly

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English

Etymology

From teetering +‎ -ly.

Adverb

teeteringly (comparative more teeteringly, superlative most teeteringly)

  1. While teetering, or as if teetering.
    • 2003, Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood:
      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...
    • 2008, Suzanne White, The New Chinese Astrology:
      She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress.