butcherly
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“Who’s to light the butcherly thing when hain’t got no ile in?” growled the ruffian addressed.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
In the thick of this message she was, unluckily, caught by Dr Pughson, who, after dealing her one of his butcherly gibes, bade her to the blackboard, to grapple with the Seventh Proposition.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
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