brokerly

English

Etymology

From broker +‎ -ly.

Adjective

brokerly (comparative more brokerly, superlative most brokerly)

1. (obsolete) mean (money-pinching) or servile
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A brokerly slave,

References

• “brokerly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.