frettingly

English

Etymology

From fretting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

frettingly (comparative more frettingly, superlative most frettingly)

1. 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