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unbutcherlike

unbutcherlike adjective: not butcherlike.

Adjective

unbutcherlike (comparative more unbutcherlike, superlative most unbutcherlike)

  1. Not butcherlike.
    • This was performed in a most unbutcherlike manner, with an old sword. They were several minutes in cutting through his neck till they reached the arteries.1809, George, Viscount Valentia, Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, page 340

Forms of unbutcherlike

comparativemore unbutcherlike
superlativemost unbutcherlike

Origin of unbutcherlike

From un- + butcherlike.

Questions about unbutcherlike

What does unbutcherlike mean?
Unbutcherlike means not butcherlike.
What part of speech is unbutcherlike?
Unbutcherlike is an adjective.

Words near unbutcherlike in the dictionary

  1. unbusy
  2. unbusying
  3. unbusyness
  4. unbutch
  5. unbutchered
  6. unbutcherlike
  7. unbuttered
  8. unbutton
  9. unbuttonable
  10. unbuttoned
  11. unbuttoning

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