Jumpily

Full definition of jumpily

Adverb

1. nervously, or restlessly1999, Dec 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.
2. unevenlyThe bus drove jumpily along the unmade road.