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fishermanly

fishermanly adjective: befitting a fisherman.

Adjective

fishermanly (comparative more fishermanly, superlative most fishermanly)

  1. Befitting a fisherman.
    • Hoppy smiled with fishermanly scorn at the notion of trouble.1885, William Mackay, Beside Still Waters, volume 2, page 7

Forms of fishermanly

comparativemore fishermanly
superlativemost fishermanly

Origin of fishermanly

From fisherman + -ly.

Questions about fishermanly

What does fishermanly mean?
Fishermanly means befitting a fisherman.
What part of speech is fishermanly?
Fishermanly is an adjective.

Words near fishermanly in the dictionary

  1. fisherman's rings
  2. fisherman's soup
  3. fisherman's suplex
  4. Fisherman's Wharf
  5. fishermanlike
  6. fishermanly
  7. Fishermans Bay
  8. Fishermans Reach
  9. fishermanship
  10. fishermen
  11. fisherpeople

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