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- adverb
Eye dialect spelling ofcarefully .
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Examples
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He stepz keerfully, putting floofy blankeez ober deh sleeping cheezpeepz.
Sometimes the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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If u lissen keerfully, u can heer teh odder kitteh yowling bak.
Oprea kittah - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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'The loryer yere, hes spread hisself on Mulock's motive fur doin' this thing; 'sistin' thet fur seventeen yar he's ben a nussin 'suthin -- nussin' it as keerfully as a mother nusses her chil'ren.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Why, sir," said Jupp, scratching his head reflectively -- he had left his cap under the elm-tree on top of the hill, where he had taken it off when he set about building the fire for the kettle -- "a mollycoddle is a sort of chap as always wraps hisself up keerfully for fear the wind should blow upon him and hurt his complexion."
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Then there is briars and nettles and tread safts, and smartweed and poison that's always in the way on a farm, and must be looked after keerfully, especially snakes, which are my eternal horror, and I shall always believe are sum kin to the devil himself.
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Walker, spun harder an 'finer, made out'n better wool, doubled an' twisted, and _mighty keerfully waxed_ into the bargain.
Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 George Cary Eggleston 1875
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Then we shock it up keerfully, and don't leave a husk or a corn-stalk layin 'around.
John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania 1873
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"Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel," said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869
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"Ye don't seem to mind bein 'shot at," she said, with an odd smile, "but it won't do for you to kalkilate that EVERYBODY shoots as keerfully as uncle Harry."
From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869
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They've made it as smooth as ice, and we'll hev to hold on keerfully.
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850
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