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  • adverb In a butch manner.

Etymologies

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butch +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Even before the state opening of Parliament, MPs were gathering to plot protests — many butchly declaring that they would personally have tackled any police officer, had they seen one.

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008

  • She stomps butchly about and thumps down in her manly breeches with knees vehemently splayed.

    Evening Standard - Home Fiona Mountford 2011

  • It was engaging and it was thrilling but more by virtue of Bartoli's boisterous personality - legs butchly astride, jaw jutting defiantly - than the impact of her voice.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • It was engaging and it was thrilling but more by virtue of Bartoli's boisterous personality - legs butchly astride, jaw jutting defiantly - than the impact of her voice.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

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