keerfully
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]keerfully (comparative more keerfully, superlative most keerfully)
- Pronunciation spelling of carefully.
- 1875, Bret Harte, “Brown of Calaveras”, in The Tales of the Argonauts[1]:
- "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. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.
- 1863, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863[2]:
- '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.