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English
Etymology
From teetering + -ly.
Adverb
teeteringly (comparative more teeteringly, superlative most teeteringly)
- 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.