jumpily
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jumpily (comparative more jumpily, superlative most jumpily)
- nervously, or restlessly
- 1999 December 20, “Sabine Durrant interview with Jamie Theakston”, in The Guardian:
- But when I sympathise and say that dating a pop star can't have helped, he says jumpily: "I think it's important to remember that when I started going out with her, she wasn't famous.
- unevenly
- The bus drove jumpily along the unmade road.