"frictiony" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1896, John Muir, “The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West”, in Sierra Club Bulletin:",
          "text": "Few in these hot, dim, frictiony times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money,― or so little,― they are no longer good themselves",
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          "ref": "1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, Pete McDonald, page 86:",
          "text": "We nipped back along the top to the Sentinel Area, where there's the poorly protected Back Slab. It's a frictiony, walk-up thing, with a delicate finish that I wouldn't like to jump off.",
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          "ref": "2004, Michael Grant Jaffe, Whirlwind: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 106:",
          "text": "I can hear the frictiony swish of leaf against leaf.",
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          "ref": "2024 December 9, Jacob Geller, “11 of the Best Games From a Staggeringly Good Year of Games” (6:34 from the start), in (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "Slitterhead is not a particularly polished experience. It starts very slow, the combat always has a hint of jank, the budget limitations are very obvious. But I have to admit, this has just endeared me more to it. I love how frictiony my playthrough was, how I found the edges of the game's design and adapted to them rather than it arriving pre-adapted to me.",
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        "Having a lot of friction (physical or figurative)."
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