Adither
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 In a state of confusion, excitement, or anxiety, usually combined with an expectancy.
"...stately witches housing their black, raucous familiars; the corrugated oaks stretching gnarled, hypnotizing arms ; the delicate, feathery larch; even the little, squat, bourgeois laurel, all adither with fussy, garrulous excitement "Hullo, here's old..."
Example
More examples"...stately witches housing their black, raucous familiars; the corrugated oaks stretching gnarled, hypnotizing arms ; the delicate, feathery larch; even the little, squat, bourgeois laurel, all adither with fussy, garrulous excitement "Hullo, here's old..."
Etymology
From a- + dither.
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