unbutcherlike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]un- + butcherlike
Adjective
[edit]unbutcherlike (comparative more unbutcherlike, superlative most unbutcherlike)
- Not butcherlike.
- 1809, George, Viscount Valentia, Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, page 340:
- 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.