rustfully

In a rustful manner.

Adverb

  1. In a rustful manner.
    • Her sister, the Nevada, is reposing “rustfully” in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool. - 1893, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 20, page 533:
    • Load bearing Chrome butterflies that wreathe rustfully around my breast. - 2013 Authumn, A Vickery, “Roadside; Contagious feeling”, in Island, number 132:
    • He turned his slat chair, property of the house, squealing rustfully in the joints, so that he could not see the kitchen window. - 2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin: A Novel, →ISBN:

Origin

From rustful + -ly.

Forms

more rustfully most rustfully