undertakerly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

undertaker +‎ -ly

Adjective[edit]

undertakerly (comparative more undertakerly, superlative most undertakerly)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an undertaker (funeral director).
    • 1911, Luis Coloma, A True Hildago, page 291:
      The word with its undertakerly associations revived all my former alarm.