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butchly

butchly adverb: in a butch manner.

Adverb

butchly (comparative more butchly, superlative most butchly)

  1. In a butch manner.
    • I refused to wear this properly as it looked a bit prissy, so I butchly slung it over one shoulder.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 51

Forms of butchly

comparativemore butchly
superlativemost butchly

Origin of butchly

From butch + -ly.

Questions about butchly

What does butchly mean?
Butchly means in a butch manner.
What part of speech is butchly?
Butchly is an adverb.

Words near butchly in the dictionary

  1. butchiest
  2. butchiness
  3. butching
  4. butching up
  5. Butchlander
  6. butchly
  7. butchness
  8. butchphobia
  9. butchy
  10. bute
  11. Buteau

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